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byzantium
/bəˈzæntiəm/
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What does byzantium mean?
noun
- A dark shade of purple, close to Tyrian purple and palatinate purple.
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proper noun
- (historical) An ancient Greek city situated on the Bosporus in modern Turkey, renamed Constantinople in 330 C.E.; modern Istanbul.
- (historical) An ancient Greek empire in Southeastern Europe and Western Asia, with its capital at Constantinople; in full, Byzantine Empire.
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Besides, as if Cyprus and Ptolemy were not work sufficient, he was ordered also to restore the refugees of Byzantium.
These were the intellectual weaknesses which, as I read history, followed on physical degradation in Imperial Rome, in Alexandria, in Byzantium.
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His service done At Lacedaemon and Byzantium Were a sufficient briber for his life.
Every writer of mediaeval history who has had occasion to refer to the choice by Constantine the Great of Byzantium, afterwards Constantinople, as his capital, has extolled his judgment and prescience.
From Byzantium we have the earliest known complete medical manuscript, dating from the fifth century--a work of Dioscorides--one of the most beautiful in existence.