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.

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

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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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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A three-year research project culminating in a February 2014 international symposium in Vienna generated 13 papers on coming of age in medieval Byzantium.

Coming of Age in Byzantium: Adolescence and Society

This Day of Memory for the victims of murderous regimes brings to mind the genocide of the pagan Greeks of Byzantium who had not embraced Christianity.

The hushed-up genocide: Byzantium's massacre of Greeks

In sixth century Byzantium, Emperor Justinian is determined to reunite the whole of the Roman Empire and his best general, Flavius Belisarius, is poised to invade Italy.

Triumph

Synopsis: In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands.

Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood

Edmund Ryder: The 14 substantial essays comprising the book--subtitled The Byzantine as Method in Modernity investigate the aesthetic links and disjunctions between the culture of Byzantium and 19th- and 20th-century artists, architects and intellectuals who took it to be a source of inspiration and kinship.

Byzantium/Modernism: Eds Roland Betancourt and Maria Taroutina

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