How did the Eastern Romans try to Retake their former Empire?

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Why isn't anything said about Spain?

There was no “Byzantine Empire”.

What happened in the 5th century was the collapsed of the western half of the empire.

The eastern half of the Roman Empire ruled from Constantinople continued to flourished for another 1,000 years.

I like this video but you really need to double-check your pronunciation on things. It's "CORsica," not "CorSIca"

belisarius and his men didnt plunder italian cities they come to free them form barbarian yock

Pronunciation please!!!

The Phoenicians was black Americans when they left the pillows of Hercules where you think they went just on the coast of the Africa Not only there, they went to America the homeland of the Phoenicians But they don't want to tell anyone that because they want someone to discover America. The black American Homeland is the American lands But that's for another story. What do you think The punic wars was all about trying to take control of North Africa stop black people from trade. Why throw out history you can't find black people because the Greek the Romans and the Catholic Church was always at war with them. The winner tell the history. They literally wipe or tried to wipe black Americans aka Moores off the planet but instead they just wiped them out of the history. History is a lie do your own research and remember black America's play a huge role on this planet.

Very confusing. Are repeated reference to "the Romans" meant to designate the Byzantines? Since they were attacking the Western (based in Rome) Empire, it was always jarring.

As the Crusaders demonstrated in the Fourth Crusade in Constantinople, the Franks or Germanic tribes would have crushed those Greeks or Byzantines. It was just their time, just like the Italics/Romans had their time.

Modern historians ruining history. There was no such thing as the “Byzantine empire” it was still the Roman Empire and individuals called themselves Roman on the eastern side up until the real collapse of the empire to the ottomans.

Only the Germanic tribes called Eastern Romans ''Byzantine'' The first use of the term “Byzantine” to label the later years of the Roman Empire was in 1557, when the German historian Hieronymus Wolf published his work, Corpus Historiæ Byzantinæ, a collection of historical sources. Justinian called himself a Roman Emperor!!!

Which name do you prefer ? Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantine Empire ?

Also, I am glad you included Diocletian's tetrarchy here by mentioning that what would be the Empire's permanent split in 395 had begun actually with Diocletian himself - establishing the borders (between the eastern and western empires) in the 290s AD.

Justinian THE GREAT was simply UNmatched. He WAS the Byzantine Empire - at its apex. He not only extended it but completely reformed and restructured Constantinople from within after successfully putting down a slew of deadly riots. Then he went on to rebuild the Hagia Sofia. The depletion of much of his resources and manpower was beyond his control due to an unprecedented plague. He was simply the best.

Considering how Justinian's reign is around what's often accepted as the time of the historic King Arthur (as per the dates stated in the Welsh Annales), one wonders if the Emperor's re-conquest attempt could be the original source of the story of Arthur and the other Britonian kings marching on Rome? The story called the Emperor "Lucius", but it could've easily been Justinian--Arthur and Co essentially telling him to back off and stay out of Britain, Or Else.

The latin empire that became Greek

I wonder if byzantine empire successful to retake Italy under Greek culture and language, is this bad news for latin civilization? I wonder what Italian people though on this

Vandals fell very quickly and Justinian thought the same will be with ostrogoths but war with them lasted for 20 years exhausting Byzantine empire. You should also mention in your video the possessions in spain that were retaken from Visigoths

The forces of the Empire (Roman Empire) were guided against the )ews by Holy Church being chosen as the official Religion.
Honorary rights were taken from the nose people and even the baptised were excluded from the higher offices and the military career. Upon pain of death they were forbidden to carry on trade with Christians and town slaves, even if the latter were pagans.
Justinian (East Roman Emperor ruled 527-565) went so far as not to recognize the evidence of a nose man against that of a Christian as proof in the courts of law. Jay historian Narcisse Leven from his work: "Fifty years of History": The Universal chosenite Alliance.
These defensive laws without doubt were a distant forerunner of the famous laws for ethnic purity, by means of which in some lands Catholics of jay origin were removed from the leading positions of State and Honorary offices of the Catholic Church.
These laws for ethnic purity were approved by Popes Paul III., Paul IV., and others.
These were approved as means of preventing the false Christians, who were secretly chosenites, from infiltrating further into the Clergy.
Book Reference:
The Plot Against The Church by Maurice Pinay.

What’s funny about the east being better off than the west for Rome is that was purely due to the technology and ignorance of the time. Indeed, if the east had greater ability and knowledge to be able to cross the ocean they would have been the stronger power by far due to trade and colonization. But since they didn’t have that tech or knowledge the East rained supreme.

Also, in those years huge climatic problem shelled the earth. It was so disasterous that many lives passed away because of unusual cold. Even in summer it was snowing. Imagine how to deal with that?

Justinian the great may have brought Rome much glory but arguably his over extention of the empire created the conditions that caused the collapse of the empire to the Muslims a few decades later

justilian ( ILLYRIAN ) Dardanias origine albanes

Just let's the Roman Empire unite again

Interesting

man it is insane how much rome changed everything becuase you can see so many differences between east rome and west rome

The map at the beginning of the video is almost totally wrong...Urbinum, Firmum and Auximum are northernmost, on the territory called Marche, and not in Umbria. Ariminum (Rimini) was southernmost and Picenum is the ancient name of Marche and not a city.

The position of the cities of central Italy (ariminum - Rimini, urbinum - Urbino, auxium - Osimo, firmum - Fermo, picenum) on the map is not very accurate.

looks like Ravenna is in Venice

Why do you continually call the Eastern Roman Empire 'Byzantine'? The citizens of the Eastern Empire never knew the term, which was invented in 1557, 104 years after the fall of the Empire. To themselves, they were simply Romaioi, 'Romans'.

Justinian sold no cap

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small forgotten detail, the Romans (the real ones) allied themselves with both the Goths and the Longobards later, against the Byzantines, since the Byzantine Greeks had no real intention of restoring a Roman empire, but of making Italy a province, something that never was for the Romans, since Italy was always a PATRIAE, never a province.

and then some 170 years later - the Byzantines, Visigoths, Burgundian Franks of Southern France, and the Southern Lombards of Italy have been simultaneously and shockingly defeated by the Umayyad Arabs - and soon allowing the Arabs to swiftly conquer Spain, Provence, Sicily, Southern Italy, the Peloponnese, Dodecanese, and the Sardinian and Corsican Islands.

and then soon established the Emirates of Corduba, Aghlabid, Bharghawat, Cretan, and the Idrisid rule.

"With the collapse of the empire in the west, its eastern counterpart became, in reality, an entirely new and independent state, at once Greek by language and Roman in name: 'A Greek Roman empire'."
Roderick Beaton, "The Greeks: a global history", New York: Basic books 2021, pp. 212

The first 60 seconds are extremely historically inaccurate

Byzantium’s biggest mistake was keeping Constantinople as their capital city, they should’ve renamed Rome as their capital after they’ve reconquerd the city so when Constantinople fell to the Ottomans, it wouldn’t’ve been the end of the Byzantine Empire and Rome would continue to exist for centuries

Why they called the East Roman empire "Byzantine empire"?

Out of all the empires in history the romans are the most interesting

No mention of the Justinian plague?

I hate when people call the eastern Roman Empire the Byzantines.

Stop calling the Roman Empire in the East the "Byzantine Empire," it's bigoted and a disgusting lie

Well they partially succeeded, but unfortunately they destroyed Italy in the process…

There was never a "byzantine empire" only ROMAN EMPIRE

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