The Byzantine Empire was the medieval Eastern Roman Empire, that evolved after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century and fell in the 15th century.
Byzantine may also refer to:
Byzantine Empire, religion, and culture edit
- Byzantine architecture
- Byzantine Revival architecture, a.k.a. Neo-Byzantine architecture, an historicist or revival style
- Byzantine art
- Byzantine music
- Byzantine literature
- Byzantine Greek, or Medieval Greek, the form of the Greek language spoken in the Byzantine Empire during the Middle Ages
- Byzantine Rite, an ecclesial rite in the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Eastern Orthodox Church
- Byzantine text-type (also called Antiocheian Text, Constantinopolitan Text, Ecclesiastical Text, Majority Text, Syrian Text, or Traditional Text), one of several text-types used in textual criticism to describe the textual character of Greek New Testament manuscripts
- List of Byzantine emperors
Arts, entertainment, and media edit
- Byzantine (album)
- Byzantine (band), a heavy metal band from West Virginia, United States
- Byzantine (video game)
Other uses edit
- Byzantine fault, tolerance in computer science
See also edit
- Byzantines (disambiguation)
- Byzantinism, a modern comparison to the complexity of the political apparatus of the Byzantine empire
- Byzantium (disambiguation)