Countries in the Byzantine Empire

Can you name the modern-day countries who were part of the Byzantine Empire at its peak in 555 A.D.? Not counting vassal states

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UK is given to you since Gibraltar was part of it

Some of these countries, especially in the West, were held only briefly

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Percent	Country
100%	Albania
~10%	Algeria
~1%	Austria
100%	Bosnia and Herzegovina
100%	Bulgaria
~65%	Croatia
100%	Cyprus
~60%	Egypt
~8%	France
~5%	Georgia
100%	Greece
100%	Israel
~95%	Italy

Percent	Country
~40%	Jordan
100%	Kosovo
100%	Lebanon
~20%	Libya
100%	Liechtenstein
100%	Malta
100%	Monaco
100%	Montenegro
~15%	Morocco
100%	North Macedonia
~10%	Portugal
~20%	Romania

Percent	Country
~1%	Russia
100%	San Marino
~2%	Saudi Arabia
~80%	Serbia
~25%	Slovenia
~30%	Spain
~15%	Switzerland
~50%	Syria
~85%	Tunisia
~85%	Turkey
~1%	Ukraine
~1%	United Kingdom
100%	Vatican City

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Level ∞

Jun 16, 2019

If you're interested in this period of history, Count Belisarius by Robert Graves is a good read.

Level 68

Feb 25, 2022

Or read Procopius. It is a first hand account of this time period written by one of the last great classical historians. It is still relatively readable today, at least in parts.

It has a really interesting history, in that Procopius wrote several official books covering this time period, then sat down and wrote what he claimed was the true history, containing all the events and truths he was forced to leave out.

In this history, Procopius goes back and forth between covering the history of the rule of Justinian in great detail, including firsthand accounts of various events in Justinian's conquests, and slandering Justinian, Belisarus and anyone related to Justinian as much as possible. As per the Secret History Justinian was actually some tyrannical demonspawn with the face of a long dead emperor, and uses dark powers, revealed by his tendency to literally have his head vanish and reappear at random with nothing wrong.

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Level 79

Jun 16, 2019

UK should be included because of both Gibraltar and the territories on Cyprus.

Level 86

Dec 5, 2021

Neither of which are part of the UK.

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Level 54

Feb 26, 2022

Gibralter is

Level 64

Mar 7, 2022

No it isn't.

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Level 43

Jan 24, 2023

Yes it is. Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory you can see it at: https://www.gov.uk/world/gibraltar/news#:~:text=Gibraltar%20is%20a%20British%20Overseas,external%20affairs

Level 44

Feb 20, 2025

British Overseas Territories aren't part of the UK.

Level 75

Jun 16, 2019

Way easy. Too much time?

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Level 76

Aug 1, 2019

Either you are bragging and exagerating or time have been changed. Cause i typed countries back to back without pause and am not a slow typer (on laptop anyway, tablet slows things down) and was tight in time.. Missed a few ( conviced I had allready typed croatia, but portugal had slipped my mind and malta and cyprus hadnt come up yet either) but not time to figure out which country I hadnt typed yet. (But atleast 4 of which I had tried werent on, so maybe if I had typed the right countries the time would ve been less tight)

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Level 62

Aug 10, 2019

You're not as awesome as Sillie.

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Level 92

Nov 23, 2019

Few people are as awesome as Sillie..

Level 75

Nov 27, 2019

Wasn't just thinking of my own score. Also about the total score of people. Right now the least guessed country is still 72%, not way low. Of course it depends on how hard they want the quiz to be.

Level 82

Jun 17, 2019

I'm surprised that although both Austria and Switzerland are included, Liechtenstein isn't.

Level 81

Jun 17, 2019

Only small parts of both are included. Greetings from Pater to Cardinal!

Level 63

Feb 26, 2022

Liechtenstein's included now.

Level 72

Aug 1, 2019

Great Quiz Oskar ;)

Level 77

Aug 1, 2019

Great quiz!! I got all but four first try

Level 47

Aug 1, 2019

I missed Austria, Slovenia, and BULGARIA on my first try XD

Level 26

Aug 12, 2019

I missed *TURKEY!* I feel stupid!

Level 67

Aug 14, 2019

If I'd get a dollar for every time I forget Turkey in these quizzes...

Level 99

Nov 22, 2019

San Marino was already independent back then, it was just smaller than today, therefore it has to be included, but not 100%.

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Level 79

Nov 23, 2019

"smaller than today" - What is this? A country for ants?

Level 66

Aug 27, 2021

Bacteria

Level 81

Jun 26, 2020

In the map cited as source, Liechtenstein is clearly not in the Byzantine empire. This is obvious if you use the Rhine river as reference.

Level 51

Jan 11, 2021

Anyone else notice that the Byzantine Empire had a lot of the same countries as the Ottoman Empire?

Level 82

Mar 20, 2021

Gibraltar in the caveat (thanks for including it!) should be capitalised.

Level 75

Aug 7, 2021

Im pretty sure Andorra was part of the Roman Empire

Level 68

Feb 25, 2022

Yes, but not the Byzantine Empire. In Iberia, the ERE basically only controlled Andalusia and the Balaeric Islands at its peak extent. The invasion of Spain was basically an afterthought in Justinian's plans, the result of seeing that the Visigoths were in a succession crisis, and that was as good an excuse as any to carve away a chunk of the visigothic kingdom in Spain. The Byzantines never really made it far into Iberia and were never anywhere near the Pyrennes, as their invasion quickly got bogged down, and they decided that the only part of Spain worth keeping was a buffer against the Visigoths for their African territories, along with the Balearics which were added in a previous war. They were never in Andorra.

Level 59

Feb 25, 2022

According to the map you used, Liechtenstein never was part of Byzantium and neither was Austria.

The map clearly shows the River Rhine and the bow it makes near the Swiss city of Chur. The Byzantine "border" goes South of that in the map, Liechtenstein lies North of that point.

Cheers,

Ch.

Level 45

Feb 25, 2022

I totally agree with you. Even without the map, the territories annexed by Byzantium in the West under Justinian - apart from North Africa and Southern Spain and Portugal - were present Italy in its then-boundaries (so including San Marino and Vatican, Corse and some areas of the current swiss Canton Ticino). Austria or Liechtenstein were inhabited by German tribes and would have been annexed by the Frankish kingdom few years later.

I apologize for any mistakes in English, which is not my mother tongue ;)

Level 37

Feb 25, 2022

Damn it Kosovo

Level 58

Jun 18, 2024

got everything except for georgia

Level 76

Aug 22, 2024

A few others have mentioned this but the linked source definitely does not include Liechtenstein. No part of Byzantine territory in central Europe goes north of the bit of the Rhone east of Lake Geneva. Whereas all of Liechtenstein lies well north of that line. I would also argue that it doesn't include Austria, but that is a little less clear.

Level 58

Sep 13, 2024

I FORGOT ITALY BUT GUESSED EVERYTHING ELSE😭

Level 52

Dec 2, 2024

How in the world did you get Vatican and San Marino, BUT NOT ITALY??!

Level 80

Mar 5, 2025

Liechtenstein should not be there, Justinian never had any territory north of the Rhone (you can see it on the map). Even Austria is a stretch.