Kakaisaran Romawi Timur

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Kakaisaran Romawi Timur atau Bizantium (ijoan lain: Bizantin, Byzantin, Byzantine, Byzantium) adolah wilayah timur Kakaisaran Romawi nan utamonyo babahaso Yunani pado Abaik Kuno jo Patangahan.[1] Panduduak jo nagari-nagari sakitarnyo manyabuik nagari ko sabagai Kakaisaran Romania (Yunani: Ῥωμανία, Rōmanía). Kakaisaran ko bapusek di Konstantinopel, sarato dikuasoi dek kaisar-kaisar nan marupokan pangganti kaisar Romawi Kuno salapeh runtuahnyo Kakaisaran Romawi Barat.

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  1. Millar 2006, pp. 2, 15; James 2010, p. 5: "But from the start, there were two major differences between the Roman and Byzantine empires: Byzantium was for much of its life a Greek speaking empire oriented towards Greek, not Latin culture; and it was a Christian empire."