eastern rome

What If Leo Tornikios, an E. Roman/Byzantine Doux from an important family and Emperors relative, didn't rebel or rather if he would, that he'd be prevented to do so. Either imprisoning him effectively or at the times practice, making secure that even if willing he couldn't be considered apt for...

Introduction Oescus, Moesia Inferior 468 AD Dengizich, son of Attila. After the disastrous incursion over Roman Thrace, Dengizich, son of Attila, decided to stop the aggressions and agreed to make negotiations with the Eastern Roman magister militum Anagastes. The conversations took place at...

from what ive read it appears that the byzantine government had a policy of transfering armenians out of their home areas and to other parts of the empire and emporor Constantine IX Monomachos even disbanded a large army stationed in the eastern frontier. that left armenia and eastern anatolia...

The Justiniad --- A Heraclian Timeline Prologue Justinian II stood outside of his tent, looking at the shoreline. The sun was setting, and the battle won, the fields of Sebastopolis stained red with the blood of Romans and Arabs alike. The sound of the waves relaxed him, the smell of the...

The idea of Rome discovering gunpowder has been touted before, largely on YouTube to be honest. It's the sort of thing that would revolutionize warfare no matter what, and has been used in numerous atls to save rome. But what if the Eastern Roman Empire discovered the secrets of gunpowder under...

On this scenario, the Ostrogoth kingdom is able to push the byzantines from the entire peninsula, and further conquest sicily and Sardegna, what would be the cultural, political and religious implications of this in the future?

The Isaurian dynasty ruled from 717 AD until 802 AD, and was responsible for the most intense age of iconoclasm power and also for stopping the Caliphate conquests, while losing most of Italy and the conflicts with the west after Karolus Magnus was crowned Emperor of the Franks First the AHC...

Could the Danube River have become the main artery of trade and travel for a new empire after the fall of the western Roman Empire? How does the navigability of the Danube compare to the Dnieper River that allowed the Kievan Rus to raid the Black Sea? What could create a river-based empire in...