Byzantium
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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A priest traces the endless conflict of Russia and the West to the Crusaders’ sack of Constantinople, formerly Byzantium, in 1204.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026
While Anna failed to reconcile her love for her father with her love of historical truth, recent scholars of Byzantium have rightly acclaimed “The Alexiad” as a historical source of first importance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Meanwhile diplomacy provided Byzantium with the intelligence to deflect pressure from the Huns and otherwise shape the Byzantine near abroad to favor its own interests.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
After he died, however, Byzantium slowly re-lost its conquests in the west to another round of Germanic invasions, and the Persians pressed steadily on the eastern territories as well.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
The girl, who would grow up without a father, was named Theodora, after the scandalous empress of Byzantium whom Sourmelina admired.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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