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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 2573062, member: 75525&quot;]I call the coins Roman, but Eastern Roman or Byzantine both work for me. </p><p><br /></p><p>By·zan·ti·um was an ancient city of Thrace on the site of present-day Istanbul, Turkey. It was founded by the Greeks in the seventh century BC and taken by the Romans in 196 AD. Constantine I ordered the rebuilding of the city in 330 and renamed it Constantinople. It became the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire .... eventually Byzantium. (<a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Byzantion" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Byzantion" rel="nofollow">http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Byzantion</a>)</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the answer to the question, &quot;were the folks in 1100 AD Constantinople Roman or Byzantine?&quot; depends on who you ask. You need to look up the work Schism and apply it to the churches in Rome and Constantinople to understand the split. </p><p><a href="http://www.catholic.com/tracts/eastern-orthodoxy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.catholic.com/tracts/eastern-orthodoxy" rel="nofollow">http://www.catholic.com/tracts/eastern-orthodoxy</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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