Built as Byzantium, and then renamed Constantinople, Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense ...

Many factors contributed to the survival of the Byzantine Empire. It had a good infrastructure system that funneled agricultural supplies, and it had a good infrastructure system that funneled these ...

we mentioned the Akritai (or Akritoi), a group of light infantry soldiers who guarded the eastern frontiers of the Byzantine Empire and were recruited from the peasants of the border provinces. Today, ...

A helmet found among the artifacts from the ship burial at Sutton Hoo in England may serve as evidence that early Anglo-Saxon warriors fought as mercenaries for the Byzantine Empire in the 6th ...