The Byzantine Empire followed after the Roman Empire fell. Before the Roman Empire fell, The Byzantine was considered part Eastern Roman Empire which covered the southeast part of Europe, as well as West Asia. The Byzantine Empire began as the city of Byzantium, which had grown from the ancient Greek colony founded on the European side of the Bosporus. The city was then taken in AD 330 by Constantine 1, who re-founded it as Constinople. When Constantine …showed first 75 words of 1083 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1083 total…Ottoman Turks, but Constantinople still held out. Finally, the forces of Mehmed the Conqueror took the capital city after a lengthy siege. Constantinople would again be the center of a Mediterranean empire stretching from Vienna to the Caspian Sea and from the Persian Gulf to the Strait of Gibraltar, but now it would be known as a Muslim city in the empire of the Ottomans. The great Greek Byzantine Empire had come to an end.