Byzantium: The Lost Empire
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Actor: John RomerBrand: Koch International
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC
Running Time: 208 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-08-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Koch Vision
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Summary: 5 Stars
John Romer is the great Egyptologist, historian and archaeologist, who, along with his many books has created and appeared in some of the greatest documentaries ever to grace the small screen ... Byzantium: The Lost Empire is no exception. This masterful work details the greatest Empire of Europe and western Asia in the Middle Ages. The history, as you will learn, starts in 330 C. E. when Emperor Constantine founded a new capital of the Roman Empire near the town of Anatolia next to the Black Sea. This new capitol, Byzantium, was given the Greek name Constantinopolis shortly after Emperor Constantine's death.
After Rome lost its territories in 395, the now Constantinople became the capital of the Roman Empire. The main differences were the use of Greek as the main language and Christianity was now the lead religion. But John Romer will explain how many now acknowledge the Byzantine Empire as a direct continuation of the Roman Empire ... since many of the laws in Constantinople were the same laws in Rome. You'll learn that it wasn't the Arabs or the Irish that first preserved the ancient cultures, but Constantinople. From here, John Romer takes us to the tenth century, were the Byzantium was still a powerful empire with territories in Eastern Europe, Palestine, North Africa, Greece and Anatolia ... extending as far as Italy.
By the time the Byzantium Empire did fall, in the fourteen hundreds to the Ottoman Turks, Constantinople was renamed Istanbul, and became the capital of the Ottoman Empire. This is one of John Romer's acclaimed documentaries and you can't help but be drawn into this ancient culture and its greatest empire.
Summary of Byzantium: The Lost Empire
For more than 1,000 years, the Byzantine Empire was the eye of the entire world - the origin of great literature, fine art and modern government. Heir to Greece and Rome, the Byzantine Empire was also the first Christian empire. Now, after a year of filming on three continents, TLC unlocks this ancient civilization, spanning 11 centuries and three continents. Pass through the gates of Constantinople, explore the magnificent mosque of Hagia Sophia and see the looted treasures of the empire now located in St. Marks, Venice.Documentary DVD Video
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