Byzantium

名词 byzantium:

1. 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
2. a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395
   同义词：Byzantine Empire, Eastern Roman Empire

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The Byzantine Empire.
拜占庭帝国
An ancient city of Thrace on the site of present-day Istanbul, Turkey. It was founded by the Greeks in the seventh centuryb.c. and taken by the Romans in a.d. 9'. Constantine I ordered the rebuilding of the city in 330 and renamed it Constantinople.
拜占庭城：在今土耳其伊斯坦布尔城址上的一座色雷斯古城。公元前 7世纪时由希腊人所建。 公元 9'年被罗马人强占。康斯坦丁一世于330年命令重建该城，并重新将之命名为康斯坦丁堡