Population: 17 Million (457 CE) | 19 Million (565 CE) | 10.5 Million (641 CE) | 9.5 Million (717 CE) | 12 Million (1025 CE) | 10 Million (1143 CE) | 9 Million (1204 CE) | 4. The Roman Empire, founded in 27 B.C., was a vast and powerful domain that gave rise to the culture, laws, technologies and institutions that continue to define Western civilization. Name: The Roman Empire, Romania, Rome, Byzantine Empire, Byzantiumĭate of Creation: 330 CE | 1261 CE (Revived)ĭate of Dissolution: 1204 CE (Constantinople was sacked and splintered) | May 29, 1453

During most of its existence, the empire was the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in Europe. It survived the fragmentation and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and continued to exist for an additional thousand years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople.

Civ city rome or grand ages rome