Bȳzantium — meaning in English

English meaning

• Byzantium name The ancient city that became Constantinople and is now Istanbul.
• Constantinople name The historic name of the city now known as Istanbul, capital of the Byzantine and later Ottoman Empire.
• Istanbul name Turkey's largest city, straddling both Europe and Asia, and the former capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires.

Senses

Bȳzantium is used for these senses in English:

• Byzantine Empire (historical) An ancient Greek empire in Southeastern Europe and Western Asia; the predominantly Greek-speaking continuation of the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages with its capital at Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), originally known as Byzantium, which fell in 1453.
• Byzantium (historical) An ancient Greek city situated on the Bosporus in modern Turkey, renamed Constantinople in 330 C.E.; modern Istanbul.
• Constantinople (historical) The former name, from 330–1930 C.E., of Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey; the former capital of the Ottoman Empire and of the Byzantine Empire before that.
• Istanbul A Turkish city, and the largest European city by population, which was the last capital of the Ottoman Empire and the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire).

Byzantium — full definition

1. name The ancient city that became Constantinople and is now Istanbul.
2. name The Eastern Roman Empire centered on that city.

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