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This history of the Byzantine Empire covers the history of the eastern Mediterranean empire from late antiquity until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD. Several events from the 4th to 6th centuries mark the transitional period during which the Roman Empire's east and west divided.
The Byzantine Empire unfolded initially as part of the greater Roman. Empire and then, as this framework shattered with Roman decline, took on a. life of its own particularly from the reign of the emperor Justinian onward. During its formative period, which lasted through the first encounters with. the new Arab and Muslim threat, the Byzantine Empire blended Greco-Roman. political and intellectual traditions with new impulses.