Question

Which areas did the Byzantine Empire rule over at its height? How did the empire's leaders acquire that territory?

Answer 1

Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Spain and Italy. Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon and Iraq were lost to Muslims in the 7th Century. Also modern countries of Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and almost all other Balkan countries were at once parts of the Byzantine Empire. The core of the country were modern day Greece and Turkey. Turks came in the year 1071 and took most of what is now Turkey and parts of Greece fell to Latins around the 4th crusade, ie 1204. The last remnants of the empire were conquered by the turks in the 15th century.m they won it by battle and colonizing