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Hello everyone.

This is Robin Pearson from the history of Byzantium podcast.

Byzantium, as you may know, is the name historians gave to what survived

of the Roman Empire after the fall of the West.

Talk about a period filled with fake history.

You may have heard that the Byzantines weren't really Romans,

that they were a feminine and obsessed with luxury,

that they specialized in complicated and needless bureaucracy.

Almost none of that is true.

And if you want to hear how the toughest nails descendants

of the ancient Romans provided a shield for European civilization

for a thousand years, then check out the history of Byzantium.com

or find it in iTunes.

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