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BYZANTAS

Specialty Definition: Byzas

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In Greek mythology, Byzas was a son of Poseidon and founder of Byzantium.

It is also claimed that Byzantium was named after Byzantas, king of Megara, after having been founded by inhabitants of that city in 667 BC.

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

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Anagrams: BYZANTAS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-n-s-t-y-z"

-1 letter: byzants.

-2 letters: byzant, stanza.

-3 letters: antas, antsy, azans, banty, nasty, satay, tansy.

-4 letters: abas, abys, anas, ansa, anta, ants, azan, baas, bans, bast, bats, bays, nabs, nays, stab, stay, tabs, tans, zany.

-5 letters: aas, aba, abs, aby, ana, ant, any, ays, baa, ban, bas, bat, bay, bys, nab, nay, sab, sat, say, sty, syn, tab.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BYZANTAS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 59 5A 41 4E 54 41 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    -.--.    --..    .-    -.    -    .-    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01011001 01011010 01000001 01001110 01010100 01000001 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#89 &#90 &#65 &#78 &#84 &#65 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0059 005A 0041 004E 0054 0041 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3659603548543553

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