Which country is Byzantium now?

Byzantine Empire is a country spanning Europe, Asia and Africa. Its capital is Istanbul, Turkey, and its empire is located in southeast Europe. Its territory once included Europe, Asia and Africa, West Asia and North Africa.

Today, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania are the main parts of the imperial territory from the 4th century to the 3rd century. Italy and most of the former Yugoslavia, southern Iberian Peninsula, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, north of Atlas Mountains, and Tangier, Morocco were also imperial territories before the 7th century.

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The early Byzantine Empire followed the three-level local administrative system of Diocletian era, that is, the whole country was divided into several governors' districts, and each governor's district was divided into districts, which included several provinces in Roman times. The early empire established four regions.

Constantinople, the capital of the eastern region, manages Anatolia, Syria and Egypt; Thessalonica, the capital of Illyria, manages the Balkans; Lavaine, the capital of Italy, manages North Africa except Italy and Egypt; Trier, the early capital of Gaul, and arles, the late capital of Gaul, managed Gaul, Iberian Peninsula and Britannia.

After the empire was divided into two parts, the Byzantine Empire only ruled the eastern region and Illyria. After Justinian recovered Italy, he set up a marching headquarters in the recovered territory to lead the districts in the new territory. Among them, the European part of the old Italy was the Italian government (capital Lavaine) and the African part was the African government (capital Carthage).

The governor of this area is the plenipotentiary of the emperor, exercising administrative and judicial power, but not in charge of military affairs. The marching general has a slightly smaller jurisdiction, but is in charge of military and political affairs. Due to the great power of regional governors, the emperors from Constantine I gradually cut off their power and gave some power to provincial governors. The Byzantine Empire also established local governors directly under the central government of the empire in important provinces and strategic locations.

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