 Locator map of Byzantion (Byzantium). Based on File:Europe topography map.png Image by Evil berry, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed CC BY-SA 3.0 |
ByzantiumByzantium Byzantium Ancient Greek city, forerunner of Constantinople This article is about the ancient city. For the city in the late Roman period (330–1453), see Constantinople. For the Ottoman and modern city (after 1453), see Istanbul. For the empire, see Byzantine Empire. For other uses, see Byzantium (disambiguation). Byzantium (/bɪˈzæntiəm, -ʃəm/) or Byzantion (Ancient Greek: Βυζάντιον) was an ancient Greek city in classical antiquity that became known as Constantinople in late antiquity and Istanbul in modern times. The Greek name Byzantion and its Latinization Byzantium continued to be used as a name of Constantinople sporadically and to varying degrees during the thousand-year existence of the Eastern Roman Empire, which also became known by the former name of the city as… (Source: Wikipedia)
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