Sentence examples for empire split from inspiring English sources

In the fourth century, the Roman Empire split into western and eastern halves, with dueling capitals at Rome and Constantinople.

When the Roman Empire split in 395 ce, Epirus was the westernmost province of the Eastern Empire.

The territory of modern Bulgaria was once part of the Roman empire, falling to the Byzantine half when the empire split in the fourth century AD.

The Banat, the region where Müller was born, was a German-speaking enclave of the Austro-Hungarian empire split between Romania and Yugoslavia after the first world war.

The successors to Alexander's empire split the new Greek world, which now ran to the borders of India in the east and the Sudan in the south, into separate kingdoms.

Stefan Dušan, who very nearly realized his ambition to found a new Serbo-Byzantine empire, was the only man who might have prevented the subsequent rapid expansion of the Turks into the Balkans, but he died in 1355 and his empire split up.

The budding empire was split, with Theo establishing "Aldi north", which sold tobacco, and Karl leading "Aldi south", which did not.

After the Social Democrats (Marxist revolutionaries) of the Russian Empire had split into their two competing wings Menshevik and Bolshevik in 1903, Dzhugashvili joined the second, more militant, of these factions and became a disciple of its leader, Lenin.

After the first world war their empire was split up and although Süd Tyrol was, and is, mostly German speaking it was given to Italy, making it that country's most northern region.

With the capture of Constantinople by the crusaders in 1204, the power of the Byzantine Empire was split among a number of smaller authorities, of which the "empires" of Thessalonica and Nicaea were short-lived: in both, the coinage (where attributable) was of normal Byzantine character.

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