"Byzantine Empire” was the name given in the 16th c. to describe the Roman Empire from the 4th century onwards. It was a multinational and, at least at the beginning, a multireligious state. It was in the middle Byzantine period during the 11th and 12th centuries when the most significant churches were built in Athens.
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