Byzantium
Byzantium stands for:
- Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire), an empire in the eastern Mediterranean
- Byzantion , a Greek city from 660 BC. BC, later Roman Byzantium (today Istanbul )
- Constantinople , the Byzantium renamed in 330 AD, capital of Eastern Europe (now Istanbul )
Byzantine refers to:
- Byzantine architecture , the architecture widespread in the Byzantine Empire
- Byzantine historiography , the historiography cultivated in the Byzantine Empire
- Byzantine art , art cultivated in the Byzantine Empire
- Byzantine currency , the currency used in the Byzantine Empire
- Byzantine Period (Egypt) , section of the history of Egypt when it was part of the Byzantine Empire
- Byzantine error , a type of error in computer science
- Byzantine rite , a liturgical rite of the Eastern Church
- Byzantine law , applicable law in the Byzantine Empire
- Elaborate rituals that are supposed to represent differences in rank, see Byzantinism
- the medieval Greek language used in Byzantine, see Middle Greek
See also:
- Byzantium on the Danube (historical concept)
- Byzantine Studies (branch of science)
Wiktionary: Byzantium - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: Byzantine - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
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