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The [[Byzantine Empire]] was the end result of centuries of [[Roman Empire|Roman]] rule and [[Bureaucracy|bureaucratic]] growth. The end result of the combination of [[aristocracy]], the remnants of the [[Roman republic]], and time was a complex and opaque system of [[government]] that no one who had not grown up inside it had more than a hope of understanding. (And many inside felt they had no hope of understanding.) In fact, it was ''so'' complex that its very complexity became a watchword in surrounding areas and in governments that had to deal with it that the term 'Byzantine complexity' became a general term that was and is used to describe any overly complex system.
==See
*[[Byzantine aristocracy and bureaucracy]]
*[[Derogatory use of 'Byzantine']]
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