At the end of the Roman Empire, in the Byzantine period…

Turks have long admired the sultan, Mehmet II, for his military triumphs, especially his capture of Constantinople, now known as Istanbul, in 1453.

— Stephen Kinzer

“Constantinople had been changing for sometime before the Young Turks got hold of it. It would continue to change long after they had gone.”

— Charles Emmerson

You should vote for Neoprene Byzantine in the Hot Hundred, they're really sweet guys and that Moscow song is just wow! Hurry guys voting…

— Taylor Swift

“Across the broken apses and shattered naves of a hundred ruined Byzantine churches, the same smooth, cold, neo-classical faces of the saints and apostles…

— William Dalrymple

Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab self-affirmation.

— Anonymous

The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for…

— Henry Adams

Who created the byzantine empire? Who knows about the byzantine empire? Who established the byzantine empire? Who invented the byzantine empire? How many words…

— Brandon McCaw

I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The decoration of…

— Van Day Truex

The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable signs, not…

— William Henry Chamberlin

Once I spoke about this subject among a group of English intellectuals. One of them was a professor on Roman Law at one of…

— Garry Kasparov

I don't need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster... carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine…

— Steve Jobs

“In this sense, Byzantine culture embodies the French historian Fernand Braudel's notion of the longue durée , the long term: that which survives the…

— Judith Herrin

In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europehas…

— Marcel Proust

To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic an event…

— Bernard Lewis

[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

— Edward Gibbon