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Byzantium

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Noun

1. byzantium

an ancient city on the Bosporus founded by the Greeks; site of modern Istanbul; in 330 Constantine I rebuilt the city and called it Constantinople and made it his capital

2. byzantine empire, byzantium, eastern roman empire

a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Byzantium

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noun
an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus: founded about 660 bc; rebuilt by Constantine I in 330 ad and called Constantinople; present-day Istanbul

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Byzantium

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ancient city (founded 600? b.c.) on the site of modern Istanbul: name changed to , Constantinople, a.d. 330

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Byzantium

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1. The Byzantine Empire.
2. An ancient city of Thrace on the site of present-day Istanbul, Turkey. It was founded by the Greeks in the seventh century BC and taken by the Romans in AD 196. Constantine I ordered the rebuilding of the city in 330 and renamed it Constantinople.

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