Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A lokacin rarrabuwa na ƙarshe (1054) yawancin kudancin Italiya har yanzu suna ƙarƙashin mulkin Byzantine kuma an tsara su a matsayin Catepanate na Italiya. Shekaru da yawa, rayuwar coci a yankunan Byzantine na Italiya tana haɓaka ƙarƙashin tasirin al'adun Latin da na Byzantine. A cikin ƙarni na 11, cocin Latin a Byzantine Italiya har yanzu ba su yi amfani da Addinin Nicene (Filioque) ba kuma suna cikin cikakken tarayya da Eastern Orthodoxy. A lokacin yaƙe-yaƙe na Byzantine-Norman, Daular Byzantine a ƙarshe ta rasa matsayinta na ƙarshe a Yamma. An kammala nasarar da Norman ya yi a kudancin Italiya ta wajen cin birnin Bari
a shekara ta 1071.