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Eastern Roman Empire
noun
- the eastern part of the Roman Empire, especially after the division in a.d. 395, having its capital at Constantinople: survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire in a.d. 476.
Eastern Roman Empire
noun
- See Byzantine Empirethe eastern of the two empires created by the division of the Roman Empire in 395 ad See also Byzantine Empire
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Marcellinus later received several honorific titles from Justinian following the publication of his Chronicle, a work that bluntly hammers home its main theme that the Western Empire had fallen and Justinian’s Eastern Roman Empire should restore it.
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