Byzantine architecture has had a profound influence across the world, including in the Balkans, Middle East, and North ...

The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453 ... destruction by the members of the Fourth Crusade led by the Venetians in 1204. The city was burned, the inhabitants killed or exiled, and much of ...

Originally, it was all about control of the holy city of Jerusalem, which had been held by Muslims since they conquered it from the Orthodox Christian Eastern Roman (or “Byzantine”) empire in the ...

In 1204, Crusaders—deeply indebted to Venice ... and even defiled the Hagia[a] Sophia. The Byzantine Empire, already weakened by internal struggles, never fully recovered.

The Byzantine Empire was effectively founded by Emperor ... much more common than translations directly from the Greek. In 1204, a number of Byzantine territories were refashioned to become ...

‘Of that Byzantine Empire the universal verdict of history is that it constitutes, without a single exception, the most thoroughly base and despicable form that civilization has yet assumed….The ...