Definitions for byzantium
bɪˈzæn ʃi əm, -ti əmbyzan·tium

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1. Byzantiumnoun

   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 Empirenoun

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

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1. Byzantiumnoun

   The ancient Greek city situated on the Bosporus, named Constantinople in 330 , and now known as Istanbul.

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1. Byzantium

   Byzantium () or Byzantion (Ancient Greek: Βυζάντιον) was an ancient Greek city in classical antiquity that became known as Constantinople in late antiquity and Istanbul today. The Greek name Byzantion and its Latinization Byzantium continued to be used as a name of Constantinople sporadically and to varying degrees during the thousand year existence of the Byzantine Empire. Byzantium was colonized by Greeks from Megara in the 7th century BC and remained primarily Greek-speaking until its conquest by the Ottoman Empire in AD 1453.

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1. byzantium

   Byzantium is the ancient Greek name for a city on the Bosphorus. It later became Constantinople after it was re-founded by Roman Emperor Constantine the Great, and is currently known as Istanbul, Turkey. Byzantium is also often used as a metonym for the Byzantine Empire, which existed from 330 AD to 1453 AD, with Constantinople as its capital. The terms "Byzantine" and "Byzantium" are also associated with a distinctive, richly decorated art and architectural style that was prevalent in the empire.

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1. Byzantium

   Byzantium was the ancient Greek city on the site that later became Constantinople. It was founded by Greek colonists from Megara in 657 BC. The city was rebuilt and reinaugurated as the new capital of the Roman Empire by Emperor Constantine I in 330 AD and subsequently renamed Constantinople. The city remained the capital of the Byzantine Empire until 1453, when it was conquered and became the capital of the Ottoman Empire. Since the establishment of modern Turkey in 1923, the Turkish name of the city, Istanbul, has replaced the name Constantinople in the West.

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1. Byzantium

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

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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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1. byzantium

   See Constantinople.

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1. • Byzantine Empire
   • Roman Empire
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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of byzantium in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of byzantium in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=byzantium
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Byzantium
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantium
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=byzantium
6. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Byzantium
7. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html