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    Das Byzantinische Reich im Jahr 560 n. Chr., als es unter der Herrschaft Justinians mit einer geschätzten Bevölkerung von etwa 20 Millionen Menschen seine größte territoriale Ausdehnung erreichte.


    Das Byzantinische Reich im Jahr 560 n. Chr., als es unter der Herrschaft Justinians mit einer geschätzten Bevölkerung von etwa 20 Millionen Menschen seine größte territoriale Ausdehnung erreichte.

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    2. andrelopesbsb on

      One could argue that the greatest territorial extent of this empire was actually 117 AD under Trajan. The bizantine differentiation is a much later somewhat eurocentric concept.

    4. Draven_mashallah on

      And then up to 70% of the population fucking died of plague

    6. Abject_Role_5066 on

      If they had just gotten to steam engine trains and electricity. We’d be 2,000 years into the future.

    8. Gizz103 on

      The Renovati Imperrio

      Done by Belisarius and narses and John the capeodician but mostly Belisarius

    9. Justeff83 on

      Today, Greater Cairo has more inhabitants than the entire Byzantine Empire. That’s nuts.

    12. DorimeAmeno12 on

      Ideally it should be Basileia toh Rhomaion. Byzantine autokratoria is more accurate to modern Greek but the Byzantine Romans used Basileus as a general term for emperor. Iirc they used rigas/rhex(derived from Latin rex) to refer to normal kings.

    13. FGSM219 on

      The secret of Byzantium’s success was the fact that it managed to maintain a professional and effective bureaucracy instead of feudalism, which the rest of Europe would not really see until the early modern age.

      A very interesting opportunity were the negotiations between Charlemagne and Empress Irene of Athens about a marriage. That would have changed history.

    14. MOltho on

      Byzantine Empire is an anachronism, and it especially is for this early period. They were the Roman Empire, and nothing else. It was basically still Late Antiquity in the Eastern Mediterranean, before the advent of Islam.

    16. macroprism on

      And all it took to come crashing down was a few guys on a camel and a few rats from china.

    17. DvD_Anarchist on

      As a Spaniard history researcher, I can confirm this map is not accurate. They didn’t reach Portugal and they didn’t control that much territory inland (they didn’t control Córdoba for instance as it is falsely claimed in many sites). Same for Morocco, they only controlled Ceuta and its surroundings, they didn’t have that much control inland, and same for modern Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. I imagine this happens in other frontiers too, but I don’t have the knowledge about them to make more corrections.

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