Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-4923787-20130202175501/@comment-32656-20130314014630

There are numerous references in the "timeline" article to things that would be built in a capital being constructed in Byzantium. And it being turned into a major center of Roman culture. Byzantium is the city. Not the "Byzantine Empire."

Can, call it the Eastern Empire. The word "Byzantine" would never come into existence here - heck, in otl it did not do so until the 1800s.

"Eastern Empire" is pretty much what anyone would call it, and the short-form, like the others, wold eventually become the name.