Byzantium

Definition: Byzantium

Byzantium

Noun

1. An ancient city on the Bosporus founded by the Greeks; site of modern Istanbul.

Date "Byzantium" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Crosswords: Byzantium

English words defined with "Byzantium": Byzantine, Byzantine Empire ♦ Constantinople ♦ Eastern Roman Empire ♦ Hieromnemon ♦ Istanbul ♦ Stamboul, Stambul. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Byzantium": Besants, Byzantine/Rhodian Sea-Law ♦ Historical Geographic Locations ♦ Kingly Titles ♦ Quantas Empire Airways Ltd. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Byzantium" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Dutch (Byzantium).

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Specialty Definition: Byzantium

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Byzantium was an ancient Greek city, founded by colonists from Megara in 667 BC and named after their king Byzantas. The name "Byzantium" is a Latinization of the original Greek name Byzantion.

After siding with Pescennius Niger against the victorious Septimius Severus the city was besieged and suffered extensive damage in AD 186. Byzantium was rebuilt by the now Roman Emperor Septimius Severus and quickly regained its previous prosperity. The location of Byzantium attracted Constantine the Great who, in AD 330, refounded it as Nova Roma or Constantinoupolis (Constantinople) after a prophetic dream was said to have identified the location of the city.

Of course it did not take a prophet to see that this combination of imperialism and location would play an important role as the crossing point between two continents (Europe and Asia), and later a magnet for Africa and others as well, in terms of commerce, culture, diplomacy and strategy. At a strategic position, Constantinoupolis was able to control the route between Asia and Europe, as well as the passage from the Mediterranean Sea to the Euxinos Pontus (Black Sea).

In 1453 the city fell to the Ottoman Turks, and it has remained a part of Turkey to the present day.

In the 20th century the city was renamed Istanbul.

See also: Roman Empire, Roman Emperors, Constantinople, List of Byzantine Empire-related topics, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine Empire, and Byzantine Emperors.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Byzantium."

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Modern Usage: Byzantium

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Evening in Byzantium (1978)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Byzantium

Domain	Title
Books	A Concise History of Byzantium (reference) Anna of Byzantium (reference) Art and Eloquence in Byzantium (reference) Byzantium (reference) Byzantium at War (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Byzantium (reference) Byzantium - The Lost Empire (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Hatzis: Byzantium (reference) Byzantium (reference) Transit Byzantium (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Byzantium

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Non-Fiction Usage: Byzantium

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Cyprus	For 800 years, beginning in AD 364, Cyprus was ruled by Byzantium. (references)
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	After the fall of Rome, Bosnia was contested by Byzantium and Rome's successors in the west. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Byzantium

"Byzantium" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Byzantium" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	50%	5	157,705
Noun (singular)	50%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	10	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Byzantium

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "Byzantium": Phobos-byzantium.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Byzantium

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
byzantium	75
sailing to byzantium	17
byzantium vinyl	5
byzantium empire	5
byzantium map	4
byzantium constantinople	4
yeats sailing to byzantium	4
yeats byzantium	3
byzantium history	3
anna of byzantium	3
byzantium gallery	3
byzantium rare record vinyl	2
byzantium djs,collectors vinyl	2
art byzantium	2
byzantium poem yeats	2
butler byzantium sailing william yeats	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Byzantium

Language		Translations for "Byzantium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		Bisantium. (various references)

Dutch		Byzantium. (various references)

Esperanto		Bizanco. (various references)

French		Byzance. (various references)

German		byzanz. (various references)

Greek		βυζάντιο. (various references)

Hungarian		bizánc. (various references)

Irish		An BhiosÚint. (various references)

Manx		Baisantium. (various references)

Pig Latin		yzantiumbay

Portuguese		Bisâncio. (various references)

Russian		�'изантия (Lower Empire). (various references)

Spanish		bizancio. (various references)

Swedish		bysans. (various references)

Turkish		bizans. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Byzantium

Misspellings
	"Byzantium" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Biozentrum, byzantian. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Byzantium

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-i-m-n-t-u-y-z"
	-3 letters: byzant, manitu, mutiny, numbat.
	-4 letters: ambit, amity, aunty, banty, bunya, matin, minty, nizam, nubia, tabun, unity, yamun, zayin.
	-5 letters: abut, amin, anti, aunt, ayin, bait, bani, bima, bint, bunt, iamb, inby, main, many, maun, maut, mazy, mina, mint, mity, muni, myna, nazi, numb, tabu, tain, tiny, tuba, tuna, tyin, unai, unit, yuan, zany.
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