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byzantium 
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(TTS Sound)Overview of noun byzantium
The noun byzantium has 2 senses
- Byzantium -- (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)
- Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Eastern Roman Empire -- (a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395)