Byzantine
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The Byzantine Empire was the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived for a thousand years after the western half had crumbled into various feudal kingdoms and which finally fell to Ottoman Turkish onslaughts in [1453].
The city of [Byzantium] grew from an ancient Greek colony founded on the European side of the Bosporus.
In AD 330 the Roman emperor Constantine I, in an attempt to strengthen the empire, refounded Byzantium as Constantinople, the New Rome and capital of the eastern half of the empire.
At his death in 395 Emperor Theodosius I divided the empire between his two sons, and it was never reunited.
Theodosius also made Christianity ([Eastern Orthodox]) the sole religion of the empire, and Constantinople assumed preeminence over other Christian centers in the East as Rome did in the West. -
1: [Byzantium], the eternal. The unchanging. The centre of the world. Empire that was born of Rome, surpassing even that ancient glory. For over 2000 years the heirs of [the Caesars] ruled from their capital on the Bosphorus. There were [dark days] of terror and despair, many lands were lost to foes, but in the end the triumph was theirs. An empire that was lost, had been regained. A flame long snuffed out, was rekindled. A glory once tarnished, had been reborn.
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[Getting head] from a girl, you come in her mouth, [pull out], and punch her [hard in the face]. Tell her to clean herself.
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Relating to Byzantium (now Istanbul), the Byzantine Empire, or the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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