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An ancient city on the Bosporus founded by the Greeks
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byzantium
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Byzantium is the third album by alternative rock band Deep Blue Something . It was released on Interscope in 1998 only in Japan and some European countries.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The ancient Greek city situated on the Bosporus, named Constantinople in 330 (C.E.), and now known as Istanbul. 2 (context rare English) The Byzantine Empire.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
said to be named for its 7c. B.C.E. Greek founder, Byzas of Megara.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Byzantium \Byzantium\ prop. n. An ancient city on the Bosphorus founded by the Greeks. It was later renamed Constaninople in honor of the emperor Constantine, and renamed Istanbul by the Turks, which name it still retains.
Usage examples of byzantium.
He visited Troy to do homage to his ancestor Aeneas, he went to Pessinus several times, and back to Byzantium, and anywhere, it seemed, save Pergamum and Tarsus, where Claudius Nero and Dolabella remained an extra year after all.
Dyrrachium and Apollonia in western Macedonia with the Hellespont and Byzantium.
Only in seeking it can the oriflammes of Christianity go beyond Byzantium and Jerusalem.
His story was later told by the skalds, in the great Hall of the Mercenaries at Miklegarth, as Byzantium was known among the Norse, when the feasting was over and the drinking horns were raised.
Someone in Asgard had said that Timbuctoo would be the next to go, with Byzantium rising in its place.
In a place of honour to the right of the royal thrones, which rose like gilded scaffolds high above all else, was a little group of stern-faced men in foreign costumes, the ambassadors of Rome and Byzantium, of Arabia and Syria, of Korea, Japan, Tibet, Turkestan.
Nissandra or Aramayne say, ,are already deep into their Byzantium research.
To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
RECEIVED A LETTER FROM A FAN THE other day, one who had bought a copy of Agent of Byzantium by Harry Turtledove, which appeared in a series entitled Asimov Presents.
The girl, who would grow up without a father, was named Theodora, after the scandalous empress of Byzantium whom Sourmelina admired.
The motives behind building the new church were twofold: to resurrect the ancient splendor of Byzantium and to show the world the financial wherewithal of the prospering Greek American community.
Not surprising, I thought glumly, since the town of Drepanum, just down the coast from Nicomedia and across the strait from Byzantium, was a popular resort to which the court escaped during the summer heat.
East, supervising the demolition of the old town of Byzantium so that he could create a new Rome that would bear his name.
No, not if in all the chancelleries of all the Christian kingdoms, Byzantium included, there was a letter in circulation that this Prester John has written to you, to you alone, recognizing you as his only equal, and inviting you to join your two kingdoms.
Baudolino realized that Andronicus, after having entrusted himself to ventriloquists and astrologers, and having tried in vain to find in Byzantium someone who, like the ancient Greeks, could foretell the future through the flight of birds, and with no faith in the wretches who boasted that they could interpret dreams, had by now given himself over to hydromants, who, like 2osimos, could draw presages by immersing in water something that had belonged to a deceased person.