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Definition of byzantium



Overview of noun byzantium

The noun byzantium has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
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)