Byzantium

[bih-zan-shee-uhm, -tee-uhm]

noun

1. an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara: Constantine I rebuilt it and renamed it Constantinople a.d.

Byzantium

/ baɪ-, bɪˈzæntɪəm /

noun

1. an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus: founded about 660 _bc ; rebuilt by Constantine I in 330 _ad and called Constantinople; present-day Istanbul

Example Sentences

It’s thanks to this more free-breathing approach to history, including art history, that we’re getting a challenger of an exhibition like “Africa & Byzantium,” which opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Sunday.

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“He might be from Byzantium. He’s such a nice man. He’s not that much older than your papa. When Papa gets back, maybe he and Father Drozdov can become friends.”

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I consulted Vessela Valiavitcharska, director of the Writing Center at the University of Maryland and a scholar of rhetoric, grammar and logic in Byzantium and the Slavic world.

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“It’s strange that the sultans kept Mount Athos, the last remnant of Byzantium, semi-independent and didn’t touch it,” he said.

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“The poor walruses in Greenland … are not just supplying Western Europe. It was Eastern Europe, too, and also Byzantium via Kyiv, and possibly demand in the Islamic world.”

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