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Eastern Roman Empire

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Eastern Roman Empire
n
(Historical Terms) the eastern of the two empires created by the division of the Roman Empire in 395 a.d See also Byzantine Empire
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Noun1.Eastern Roman EmpireEastern Roman Empire - a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395
Byzantine Empire, Byzantium
Roman Empire - an empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome
Byzantium - an ancient city on the Bosporus founded by the Greeks; site of modern Istanbul; in 330 Constantine I rebuilt the city and called it Constantinople and made it his capital
Byzantine - a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire


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While the term comes to Paul from the Septuagint, with strong connotations of the "assembly" of (all) Israel, its primary meaning in the Greek-speaking eastern Roman empire was the citizen "assembly" of the Greek city (Liddell, Scott, & Jones, GREEK ENGLISH LEXICON [henceforth LSJ] 509, and texts; THEOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT [henceforth TDNT] 3.
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This element, which suggests a reference to the Eastern Roman Empire, is most strikingly employed by Bernini, whose colonnade encircling Piazza San Pietro alludes purposefully to the Forum of Constantine at Constantinople.
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