Byzantium

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Byzantium \Byzantium\ prop. n.
     An ancient city on the Bosphorus founded by the Greeks. It
     was later renamed {Constaninople} in honor of the emperor
     Constantine, and renamed {Istanbul} by the Turks, which name
     it still retains.
     [WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Byzantium
       n 1: an ancient city on the Bosporus founded by the Greeks; site
            of modern Istanbul; in 330 Constantine I rebuilt the
            city and called it Constantinople and made it his
            capital
       2: a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after
          its division in 395 [syn: {Byzantine Empire}, {Eastern
          Roman Empire}]