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Worsen Byzantine under Justinien towards 560
Chart Luc Rehmet



After having restored the unit of the Roman Empire, Constantin the Large one, into 330, founds Constantinople, the “Rome news”. He thus will contribute to move the center of gravity of the Roman Empire towards the East. However, it will be necessary to await the division of the Empire between the sons of Théodose I er, Honorius and Arcadius, into 395, then the collapse of its leave occidentalis (its Western part), under the blows of the cruel invasions, so that the Roman Empire of the East is constituted. It is this empire which we call Byzantine Empire.    

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