In fact, it wasn't until the Renaissance that the term “Byzantine Empire” was first used.

事实上，在文艺复兴时期“拜占庭帝国”的叫法才第一次出现。

The last half of the 15th century saw the fall of the Byzantine Empire, or if you prefer; the eastern Roman Empire.

15世纪的下半叶见证了拜占庭帝国的瓦解，或者，如果大家愿意的话东罗马帝国的瓦解。

For about a century and a half, Venice was part of the Byzantine empire.

大约一个半世纪以来，威尼斯一直拜占庭帝国的一部。

This was once the main seat of Constantinople And was the most remarkable architectural achievement Of the Byzantine empire.

这里君士坦丁堡的主要所在地，也拜占庭帝国最卓越的就。

Sharing continuity with the classical Roman Empire gave the Byzantine empire a technological and artistic advantage over its neighbors, whom Byzantines considered barbarians.

和历史悠久的罗马帝国共存的拜占庭帝国比它的邻国多了几科技和艺术的优势，拜占庭人将邻国们看作野蛮人。

Once serving as the capital of the Ottoman and Byzantine Empires, Istanbul today is the largest city in Turkey and one of the largest in the world.

伊斯坦布尔奥斯曼帝国和拜占庭帝国的首都，现如今土耳其最大的城市，亦世界上最大的城市之一。

The peasants provided the Byzantine state with less and less revenue which made it hard for the Byzantines to maintain a viable army and navy.

他们为拜占庭帝国提供的税收就越来越少这使得拜占庭很难维持有效的军队和海军。

Constantine the Great became the Roman emperor in 324 AD, and six years later, proclaimed Byzantium the official capital of the empire.

君士坦丁大帝于公元 324 年为罗马皇帝，六年后宣布拜占庭为帝国的正式首都。

Istanbul, once the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, features prominently in most travel plans but there are many more great destinations.

伊斯坦布尔拜占庭和奥斯曼帝国的首都，在大多数旅游计划中都占有重要地位，但还有更多非常棒的目的地。

In the years that followed, the prominence and influence of Constantinople continued to decline, and the rise of Islam challenged the Byzantine Empire's political dominance.

在随后的几年里，君士坦丁堡的声望和影响力持续下降，伊斯兰教的崛起挑战了拜占庭帝国的政治统治地位。

Additionally, lords and nobles saw  their power fall after the Crusades, as Europeans came to know more advanced  civilizations like the Byzantine Empire.

此外，随着欧洲人开始了解拜占庭帝国等更先进的文明，领主和贵族的权力在十字军东征后下降。

Historians believe this was the first time  the bubonic plague reached European shores, and it was deadliest around Constantinople,   the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

历史学家认为，这腺鼠疫首次到达欧洲海岸，并且在拜占庭帝国的首都君士坦丁堡附近最为致命。

Byzantine missionaries created an alphabet for Slavic languages based on a modified Greek script while Rus Viking warriors served as the Byzantine Emperor's elite guard.

在罗斯帝国的维京战士在拜占庭帝国做一流的守卫的同时拜占庭的传教士根据改良版的希腊字母为斯拉夫语创造了一套新的字母表。

In Osman's time, the Anatolian peninsula was a patchwork of Turkic principalities sandwiched between a crumbling Byzantine Empire and weakened Sultanate of the Seljuk of Rum.

在奥斯曼时代，安纳托利亚半岛夹在摇摇欲坠的拜占庭帝国和削弱的朗姆塞尔柱苏丹国之间的突厥公国的拼凑而。

And then also, like much of Greece and like Athens, it's this important centre for so much history, for the Roman Empire, for the Byzantine Empire.

然后，就像希腊的大部地区和雅典一样，它罗马帝国、拜占庭帝国历史的重要中心。

Farther east, the people of the so-called Byzantine Empire would deny that they had ever stopped being Romans, even though the Byzantines would tell you this not in Latin, but in ancient Greek.

在东边所谓的拜占庭帝国的民众拒绝承认自己不罗马人，尽管拜占庭人使用个的不拉丁语，而古希腊语。

To set the stage for the festivities, Mr Erdogan has given a makeover to the country's biggest city, the ancient home of the Ottomans (and the Byzantines before them).

为了为庆祝活动搭舞台，埃尔多安先生对该国最大的城市——奥斯曼帝国（以及之前的拜占庭帝国）的故乡进行了改造。

While he was there, he learned more about Turkish history, and he used that knowledge a few years later to write another historical novel, this time about the Byzantine Empire.

在那里，他了解了更多关于土耳其历史的知识，几年后他利用这些知识写了另一部历史小说， 这次关于拜占庭帝国的。

The Byzantines had carried on Roman traditions for centuries but by 1000AD they were losing territory rapidly to the rising Ottoman Turkish Empire, but that was not their only problem.

拜占庭帝国继承了罗马的传统直到1000年它的领土被奥斯曼帝国迅速侵占，但这不他们唯一的麻烦。

When the Roman Empire was officially split into eastern and western halves in 395 AD, Constantinople became the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, what historians now call the Byzantine Empire.

公元395年，罗马帝国正式裂为东、西两半，君士坦丁堡为东罗马帝国的首都，也就现在历史学家所说的拜占庭帝国。