# Outline of the Byzantine Empire

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Byzantine Empire:
Byzantine Empire (or Byzantium) – the Constantinople-centred Roman Empire of the Middle Ages. It is also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, primarily in the context of Late Antiquity, while the Roman Empire was still administered with separate eastern and western political centres. In its own time, there was no such thing as "the Byzantine Empire," there was just the ongoing Roman Empire; "Byzantine Empire" is a scholarly term of convenience to differentiate the empire from its earlier existence during classical antiquity before the western half collapsed (see decline of the Roman Empire). Its citizens continued to refer to their empire as the Roman Empire (Ancient Greek: Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων, Basileia Rhōmaiōn; Latin: Imperium Romanum) or Romania (Ῥωμανία). After the Western Roman Empire fragmented and collapsed in the 5th century, the eastern half continued to thrive, existing for an additional thousand years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. During much of its existence, the empire was the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in Europe.

## Geography of the Byzantine Empire
### Regions of the Byzantine Empire

* Albania under the Byzantine Empire
* Byzantine Armenia
* Byzantine Crete
* Byzantine Egypt
* Byzantine Greece

#### Administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire

* Subdivisions of the Byzantine Empire

##### Provinces of the Byzantine Empire

* Bithynia
* Byzacena
* Byzantine Crete
* Catepanate of Italy
* Catepanate of Serbia
* Drougoubiteia
* Duchy of Perugia
* Duchy of Rome
* Duchy of the Pentapolis
* Duchy of Venetia
* Egypt (Roman province)
* Europa (Roman province)
* Duchy of Gaeta
* Galatia (Roman province)
* Haemimontus
* Helenopontus
* Honorias
* Isauria
* Mauretania Caesariensis
* Mauretania Tingitana
* Mesopotamia (Roman province)
* Moesia Secunda
* Duchy of Naples
* Palaestina Prima
* Paphlagonia
* Paristrion
* Phrygia Pacatiana
* Phrygia Salutaris
* Pontus Polemoniacus
* Rhodope (Roman province)
* Scythia Minor
* Spania
* Theodorias (province)
* Thessaly

##### Themes of the Byzantine Empire

* Theme (Byzantine district)

##### Cities of the Byzantine Empire

* Constantinople (capital)
* Thessalonika

#### Affiliated polities

* Republic of Venice
* Frankokratia
* Despotate of Epirus
* Empire of Trebizond
* Bulgarian Empire
* Serbian Empire

### Demography of the Byzantine Empire

* Population of the Byzantine Empire

## Government and politics of the Byzantine Empire

* Byzantine emperors
** Byzantine emperors family tree
* Byzantine bureaucracy
** Byzantinism
* Byzantine diplomacy

### Political institutions of the Byzantine Empire

Political institutions of the Byzantine Empire
* Byzantine Senate

### Byzantine law

Byzantine law

### Military of the Byzantine Empire

Military of the Byzantine Empire
* Byzantine battle tactics
* Byzantine military manuals

#### Byzantine armed forces

* Byzantine army
* Navy

#### Military conflicts

* Byzantine wars

## General history of the Byzantine Empire

History of the Byzantine Empire
* Byzantine civilisation in the twelfth century
* Byzantine Empire under the Amorian dynasty
* Byzantine Empire under the Angelos dynasty
* Byzantine Empire under the Doukas dynasty
* Byzantine Empire under the Heraclian dynasty
* Byzantine Empire under the Isaurian dynasty
* Byzantine Empire under the Komnenos dynasty
* Byzantine Empire under the Leonid dynasty
* Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty
* Byzantine Empire under the Nikephorian dynasty
* Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty
* Byzantine Empire under the Theodosian dynasty
* Byzantine Iconoclasm
* History of Lebanon under Byzantine rule
* History of the Jews in the Byzantine Empire
* Decline of the Byzantine Empire
** Fall of Constantinople

### Military history of the Byzantine Empire

* List of Byzantine wars
* List of sieges of Constantinople
* Byzantine–Sassanid Wars
** Byzantine–Sassanid War of 602–628
* Byzantine–Arab Wars
** Byzantine–Arab Wars (780–1180)
*** Sack of Amorium (838)
* Rus'–Byzantine Treaty
** Rus'–Byzantine Treaty (907)
** Rus'–Byzantine Treaty (911)
** Rus'–Byzantine Treaty (945)
* Rus'–Byzantine War
** Rus'–Byzantine War (860)
** Rus'–Byzantine War (907)
** Rus'–Byzantine War (941)
** Rus'–Byzantine War (1024)
** Rus'–Byzantine War (1043)
* Byzantine–Venetian Treaty of 1082
* Byzantine–Venetian War (1294–1302)
* Byzantine civil war of 1321–1328
* Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347
* Byzantine civil war of 1373–1379
* Byzantine–Genoese War (1348–1349)
* Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars
** Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria
* Byzantine–Norman wars
* Byzantine–Seljuq Wars
* Byzantine–Georgian wars
* Byzantine–Mongol alliance
* Byzantine–Ottoman Wars

## Works on Byzantine history
### Byzantine historiography and scholars

* Byzantine studies
* List of Byzantine_scholars

#### 18th century

* Edward Gibbon

#### 19th century

* Fyodor Uspensky

#### 20th century

* Alexander Vasiliev (historian)
* George Ostrogorsky
* Warren Treadgold

## Culture of the Byzantine Empire

Byzantine culture
* Byzantine architecture
* Byzantine art
** Macedonian art
** Byzantine dance
** Byzantine literature
*** Acritic songs
*** Byzantine novel
** Byzantine music
* Byzantine calendar
* Byzantine cuisine
* Byzantine dress
* Byzantine gardens
* Byzantine Greeks
* Byzantine philosophy

### Religion in the Byzantine Empire

* History of late ancient Christianity
** State church of the Roman Empire
*** Byzantine Papacy
* Eastern Orthodox Church
** Byzantine Rite
** Icons
*** Byzantine Iconoclasm
** Degrees of Orthodox monasticism
*** Mount Athos
*** Saint Catherine's Monastery
* Paulicianism

### Byzantine language

* Medieval Greek

## Byzantine economy

* Byzantine economy
* Byzantine agriculture
* Byzantine currency
* Byzantine coinage
* Byzantine mints
* Byzantine silk
* Slavery in the Byzantine Empire

## Byzantine education

* Byzantine university
** University of Constantinople
* Byzantine rhetoric

## Byzantine science and technology

* Byzantine science
* Byzantine medicine
* List of Byzantine inventions