The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · World

Latin-Greek Linguistic Division

Also known as East-West division

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The cultural and linguistic division of the Roman Empire into two spheres: the Latin West (Italy, Gaul, Spain, Britain, North Africa) where Roman law, administration, and language prevailed, and the Greek East (Greece, Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt) where Hellenistic culture and the Greek language remained dominant despite Roman political control.

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Book 1 · Ch. 15
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Evolution

  1. BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

    The cultural and linguistic division of the Roman Empire into two spheres: the Latin West (Italy, Gaul, Spain, Britain, North Africa) where Roman law, administration, and language prevailed, and the Greek East (Greece, Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt) where Hellenistic culture and the Greek language remained dominant despite Roman political control.

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