Editing Constantinople (section)

=== Architecture and coinage ===
{{Main|Byzantine architecture}}
[[File:Hagia_Sophia_(15468276434).jpg|right|thumb|Columns of the [[Hagia Sophia]], currently a Mosque]]
The Byzantine Empire used Roman and Greek architectural models and styles to create its own unique type of architecture. The influence of Byzantine architecture and art can be seen in the copies taken from it throughout Europe. Particular examples include [[St Mark's Basilica]] in Venice,<ref>{{Cite web |title=San Marco Basilica &#124; cathedral, Venice, Italy |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/San-Marco-Basilica |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210206093006/https://www.britannica.com/topic/San-Marco-Basilica |archive-date=2021-02-06 |access-date=2018-10-15 |website=Encyclopedia Britannica}}</ref> the basilicas of [[Ravenna]], and many churches throughout the Slavic East. Also, alone in Europe until the 13th-century Italian [[Italian coin florin|florin]], the Empire continued to produce sound gold coinage, the [[Solidus (coin)|solidus]] of [[Diocletian]] becoming the [[bezant]] prized throughout the Middle Ages. Its [[Theodosian Walls|city walls]] were much imitated (for example, see [[Caernarfon Castle]]) and its urban infrastructure was moreover a marvel throughout the Middle Ages, keeping alive the art, skill and technical expertise of the Roman Empire. In the Ottoman period Islamic architecture and symbolism were used. 
Great [[Bath House|bathhouses]] were built in [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine centers]] such as Constantinople and [[Antioch]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium |year=1991 |editor-last=Kazhdan |editor-first=Alexander |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-504652-6 |editor-link=Alexander Kazhdan}}</ref>