Byzantine Empire

also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, comprehended at first in Asia the country on this side of the Euphrates, the coasts of the Black Sea, and Asia Minor; in Africa, Egypt; and in Europe, all the countries from the Hellespont to the Adriatic and the Danube. This survived the Western Empire 1,000 years, and was even increased by the addition of Italy and the coasts of the Mediterranean. It commenced in 395, when Theodosius divided the Roman empire between his two sons Arcadius and Honor i us, and ended with Const an a XL, who reigned Sac, the third letter of the (Ses English alphabet and in oth- St ers derived from the Latin. KS a} ‘‘in English,’ says Ben Jonson, “it might well have been spared, for it has no peculiar sound of its own.” It has the simple power of k before a, 0, u, and most of the consonants; and the power of s