You may have heard of many of the largest empires in world history, the Romans, the Mongols, the British, the Persians, the Incas, and the Byzantine's.

That last empire, however, the Byzantine's never actually existed.

How can one of the world's greatest empires never have existed?

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To learn more about G-adventures and to find a tour that's right for you, the The Byzantine Empire had as its capital the city of Constantinople what is now

modern day Istanbul. History books will tell you that the empire lasted over

a thousand years. Under the Emperor Justinian in the year 555

the Empire reached its greatest extent with territory around the Mediterranean,

Egypt, North Africa, the Balkans, and the Levant.

Over its millennium of existence, they had over 94 different emperors, and it was the center of

Orthodox Christianity.

Over time, the empire shrank.

By the time of its final defeat, the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Ottoman Turks,

the empire had dwindled to what is today parts of eastern Turkey, Greece, and some of the Balkans. With all of that history, how is it possible

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