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Byzantium and the Slavs | Byzantium and Islam
Perhaps the major Byzantine cultural achievement was the transmission of their civilization to the Slays. Much as Rome Christianized large groups of “barbarians” in western Europe, so Constantinople, the new Rome, Christianized in eastern Europe.