Byzantium

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By·zan·ti·um

(bĭ-zăn′shē-əm, -tē-əm)

1. The Byzantine Empire.

2. An ancient city of Thrace on the site of present-day Istanbul, Turkey. It was founded by the Greeks in the seventh century bc and taken by the Romans in ad 196. Constantine I ordered the rebuilding of the city in 330 and renamed it Constantinople.

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Byzantium

(bɪˈzæntɪəm; baɪ-)

1. (Placename) an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus: founded about 660 bc; rebuilt by Constantine I in 330 ad and called Constantinople; present-day Istanbul

2. (Historical Terms) an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus: founded about 660 bc; rebuilt by Constantine I in 330 ad and called Constantinople; present-day Istanbul

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By•zan•ti•um

(bɪˈzæn ʃi əm, -ti əm)

n.

an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara: rebuilt by Constantine I and renamed Constantinople A.D. 330. Compare Istanbul.

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Noun	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 Byzantine Empire, Eastern Roman Empire, Byzantium - a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395 Byzantine - a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire
	2.	Byzantium - a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395 Byzantine Empire, Eastern Roman Empire Roman Empire - an empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome 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 Byzantine - a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire

Translations

Byzanz

روم شرفی

Bizant

Byzantium

Византия

Byzantion

Byzantium

n → Byzanz nt

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References in classic literature ?

Fragment #28 -- Stephanus of Byzantium: Onchestus: a grove (26).

Fragment #29 -- Stephanus of Byzantium: There is also a plain of Aega bordering on Cirrha, according to Hesiod.

Fragment #32 -- Stephanus of Byzantium: Pallantium.

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I'll give thee, good fellow, a twelvemonth or twain, To search Europe through, from Byzantium to Spain; But ne'er shall you find, should you search till you tire, So happy a man as the Barefooted Friar.

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Of the different sorts of the first are husbandmen, artificers, exchange-men, who are employed in buying and selling, seamen, of which some are engaged in war, some in traffic, some in carrying goods and passengers from place to place, others in fishing, and of each of these there are often many, as fishermen at Tarentum and Byzantium, masters of galleys at Athens, merchants at AEgina and Chios, those who let ships on freight at Tenedos; we may add to these those who live by their manual labour and have but little property; so that they cannot live without some employ: and also those who are not free-born on both sides, and whatever other sort of common people there may be.

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There was already an ancient town there named Byzantium, but he transformed it into a new and splendid city.

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We in Russia refuse to see that we are the heirs of Byzantium," and he launched into a long and heated explanation of his views.

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Charles Lamb, with his infinite tact, attempting to, might have drawn charming pictures of the life of his day; Lord Byron in a stanza of Don Juan, aiming at the impossible, might have achieved the sublime; Oscar Wilde, heaping jewels of Ispahan upon brocades of Byzantium, might have created a troubling beauty.

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Having heard only four reports from the muskets, I was led to believe that they were worked by the islanders in the same manner as the Sultan Solyman's ponderous artillery at the siege of Byzantium, one of them taking an hour or two to load and train.

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Stephen of Byzantium mentions eight, and Strabo thirteeen, (engulphed) - but the last is out of all reason.

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In a guide to the entire millennium of Byzantine poetry, from the fourth century to the 15th, historians and scholars of literature cover preliminaries: contexts, language, metrics, and style; periods, authors, and social and cultural milieus; poetry in Byzantium and beyond; transmission and circulation; and particular uses of verse in Byzantium.

A Companion to Byzantine Poetry

The purpose of the research is to study materials relating to the history of the Ottoman Empire, as well as Turkic peoples in general, the history of Byzantium.

Turkish historians to conduct research in archives of Vatican

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