What became of the Eastern Roman Empire after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire?

The Western Roman Empire collapsed in 476 CE, but the eastern half continued to exist for nearly another thousand years. Historians commonly call this continuing Eastern Roman Empire the Byzantine Empire, with Constantinople as its capital. It did eventually fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, but it did not collapse at the same time as the western half.

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