拜占庭文化经历了一千多年的发展,水平较高。十三世纪以前君士坦丁堡一直是整个中世纪地中海世界经济、文化的中心。甚至1453年拜占庭灭亡之后,拜占庭文化仍对欧洲和东地中海各国文化发生长期持久的影响,以至在这广大的区域内,到处可以看到拜占庭式建筑,到处可以发现拜占庭的古物。 Byzantium culture has experienced more than a thousand years of development, a higher level. Before the thirteenth century, Constantinople was always the center of economy and culture of the entire Middle Ages of the Mediterranean. Even after the Byzantines’ demise in 1453, the Byzantine culture still exerts a long-lasting and lasting influence on the cultures of Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, and byzantine architecture can be seen everywhere in the vast region, and Byzantine antiquities can be found everywhere.