Byzantium — meaning in English
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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
Byzantium 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
- name The ancient city that became Constantinople and is now Istanbul.
- name The Eastern Roman Empire centered on that city.