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Brief historical description of the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages is one of the three main periods in the most consistent scheme for analyzing European history: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Modern Period. A similar term first appears in Latin in 1469 as media tempestas or "middle season". In early usage, there were many variants, including medium aevum, or "middle age", first recorded in 1604, and media saecula, or "middle centuries", first recorded in 1625. "medieval" and "medieval" meaning belonging to the Middle Ages, is derived from medium aevum. Albanian space in the Middle Ages. After the division of the Roman Empire into two parts, in 395, the Illyrian-Albanian territories became part of the Byzantine Empire, as it is commonly called after this date the Eastern Roman Empire after the ancient name of its capital, Byzantium, in honor of Constantine the Great it was called Constantinople. The Roman Empire during the III-IV centuries gave a number of prominent emperors and generals, also during the early Byzantine period (V-IX centuries), the Illyrian-Albanian territories gave the Byzantine Empire several emperors, among whom stand out especially Anastasius I of Durrës (491-518) and Justinian I of Taurisium of Skopje (527-565). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]