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The significance of religion to the Byzantine Empire
W e call it the Byzantine Empire. They did not.Thatnamewasnotcoined until 1555 when a German historian named Hieronymus Wolf tried to distinguish the Eastern Roman Empire from the Western Roman Empire.
The Western Empire had ceased to exist in 476 when it was ultimately overrun by German tribes invading from the north. The Eastern Empire, however, continued for another 977 years. It was finally…