Noun
- 1. Byzantium
- usage: 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
- usage: a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395
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