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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Byzantine Empire: Byzantine Empire (or Byzantium) – the Constantinople-centred Roman Empire of the Middle Ages. It is also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, primarily in the context of Late Antiquity, while the Roman Empire was still administered with separate eastern and western political centres. In its own time, there was no such thing as "the Byzantine Empire," there was just the ongoing Roman Empire; "Byzantine Empire" is a scholarly term of convenience to differentiate the empire from its earlier existence during classical antiquity before the western half collapsed ''(see decline of the Roman Empire)''. Its citizens continued to refer to their empire as the Roman Empire (, ''Basileia Rhōmaiōn'';〔.〕 (ラテン語:Imperium Romanum)) or Romania (). After the Western Roman Empire fragmented and collapsed in the 5th century, the eastern half continued to thrive, existing for an additional thousand years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. During much of its existence, the empire was the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in Europe. == Nature of the Byzantine Empire == The Byzantium Empire can be described as all of the following: * Empire * Eponym for "Roman Empire" or "Romania" (the self-identifying short-form name of the later Roman Empire and the East Roman or Byzantine Empire) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Outline of the Byzantine Empire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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