Virtu Financial Inc.'s billionaire founder, Vinnie Viola, manipulated its byzantine capital structure to engineer a $1.1 ...
The Byzantines and the Venetians were masters of commerce, and that led to a devastating trade war between the two powers.
In the 300s, the emperor Constantine I converted to Christianity, and a new Byzantine capital was founded in his name: Constantinople, which heralded the beginning of Byzantium’s golden age.
In 1453, the Byzantine capital of Constantinople is surrounded by Ottoman Turks. The city is but a shadow of its former glory due to the empire's ever receding coffers, while the Ottoman Empire ...
A mosaic depicting the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (left ... large assemblage of prefabricated church decorations—columns, capitals, bases, and even an ornate ambo, or pulpit.