Byzantium Definition

bĭ-zănshē-əm, -tē-əm
pronoun

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

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(rare) The Byzantine Empire.
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Origin of Byzantium

  • From Latin Byzantium, from Ancient Greek Βυζάντιον (Buzantion).

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Byzantium Sentence Examples

  • The alliance with Byzantium was revived.

  • Under Byzantium it remained nominally until the 10th century, when we find the chief magistrate still bearing the title of apXow.3 In the 8th century 4 (720) the period of Saracen invasion began; but the Saracens never secured a firm footing in the island.

  • Dialects, p. 16) that a tradition (preserved in Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v.

  • At Rome Victor excommunicated Theodotus of Byzantium on account of his doctrine as to the person of Christ.

  • Except that the use of Arabic inscriptions is one of its principal methods of decoration, it owes little to Arabia and much to Byzantium.

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