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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) Byzantium
an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara: rebuilt by Constantine I and renamed Constantinople a .d . 330.

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1. (noun) 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. (noun) Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Eastern Roman Empire
a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395

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The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. byzantium
the ancient name of Constantinople; founded by Greek colonists in 667 B.C.

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U.S. National Library of Medicine

1. byzantium
An ancient city, the site of modern Istanbul. From the 4th to 15th centuries the empire extended from southeastern Europe to western Asia, reaching its greatest extent under Justinian (527-565). By about 1000 A.D. it comprised the southern Balkans, Greece, Asia Minor, and parts of southern Italy. The capture of Constantinople in 1453 marked the formal end of the Byzantine Empire. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988)

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