Russia (Russian: Россия, Rossija) is the largest country in the world, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth’s inhabited land area, spanning Eastern Europe and northern Asia.

The Byzantine Empire. The Roman-Byzantine Period. The Byzantine Empire was the predominantly Greek-speaking continuation of the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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The “Roman Empire” (Imperium Romanum) is used to denote that part of the world under Roman rule from approximately 44 B.C.E. until 476 C.E. The term also distinguished imperial from Republican Rome.

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dynasty that ruled Iran from ca. 700 to 330 B.C.E. ACHAEMENID DYNASTY, from the Persian clan of the same name, ruled ca. 700 to 330 B.C. i. The clan and dynasty.. ii. The empire.

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The Empire at its greatest extent in AD 555 under Justinian the Great (its vassals in pink)

The Roman Empire in AD 117, at its greatest extent at the time of Trajan’s death (with its vassals in pink).