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Greece in the Roman era (Greek: Έλλάς, Latin: Graecia) describes the period of ancient Greece (roughly, the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece) as well as that of the Greek people and the areas they inhabited and ruled historically, from the Roman Republic's conquest of mainland Greece in 146 BC until the division of the Roman Empire in late antiquity. It covers the periods when Greece was dominated first by the Roman Republic and then by the Roman Empire.
The Roman Republic had been steadily gaining control of mainland Greece in the Macedonian Wars with the Fourth Macedonian War ending in 148 BC with the final defeat of Macedonia. Two years later the Roman era began with the Corinthian defeat in the Battle of Corinth in 146 BC.
The Roman era of Greek history continued with Emperor Constantine the Great's adoption of Byzantium as Nova Roma, the capital city of the Roman Empire; in 330 AD, the city was renamed Constantinople. After the death of Theodosius I in 395 AD, the Roman Empire split into the Western and the Eastern Roman Empire (known historiographically as the Byzantine Empire), the latter of which had a thriving Greco-Roman culture.
Greeks still see the Roman period of occupation as a negative period between the city state period and the Eastern Roman Empire.
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