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Byzantine Empire
- (historical) predominantly the Greek-speaking continuation of the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages with a capital city of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), originally known as Byzantium, which fell in 1453
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an ancient Greek-speaking empire of Eastern Europe
- Arabic: إِمْبِرَاطُورِيَّة بِيزَنْطِيَّة f (ʾimbirāṭuriyya bīzanṭiyya)
- Aragonese: Imperio Bizantín
- Armenian: Բյուզանդական կայսրություն (Byuzandakan kaysrutʿyun), Բյուզանդիա (Byuzandia)
- Azeri: Bizans İmperiyası
- Basque: Bizantziar Inperioa
- Belarusian: Бізантыйская імпэрыя f (Bizantyjskaja imperyja)
- Bulgarian: Византийска империя f (Vizantijska imperija)
- Catalan: Imperi Bizantí
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 拜占庭帝国 (Bàizhàntíng dìguó)
- Chuvash: Висанти империйĕ (Visanti imperijĕ), Висанти (Visanti), Тухăç Рим Империне (Tuhăç Rim Imperine)
- Crimean Tatar: Bizans İmperiyası, Şarq Roma İmperiyası, Rum İmperiyası
- Czech: Byzantská říše f
- Danish: Byzantinske Rige n, Østromerske Rige n
- Dutch: Byzantijnse Keizerrijk
- Esperanto: Bizanca imperio
- Finnish: Bysantin valtakunta
- French: Empire byzantin m
- Galician: Imperio bizantino m
- Georgian: ბიზანტიის იმპერია (bizanṭiis imṗeria)
- German: Byzantinisches Reich n
- Greek: Βασιλεία Ρωμαίων (Vasileía Romaíon), Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία f (Vyzantiní Aftokratoría), Ανατολική Ρωμαϊκή Αυτοκρατορία f (Anatolikí Romaïkí Aftokratoría)
- Hebrew: האימפריה הביזנטית f (ha-imperia ha-bizantit)
- Hungarian: Bizánci Birodalom (hu)
- Icelandic: Býsansríkið n, Austrómverska keisaradæmið n, Miklagarðsríkið n
- Indonesian: Kekaisaran Romawi Timur
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Map of the changes in borders of the Byzantine Empire
