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Byzantium and byzantine

What's the difference between byzantium and byzantine?
  

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Byzantium is a noun and it was an ancient Greek city, founded in the 7th century BC, at the southern end of the Bosporus, site of the modern city of Istanbul. It was rebuilt by Constantine the Great in 324–330 AD as Constantinople. byzantine is an adjective , and it means: of or relating to Byzantium, the Byzantine Empire, or the Eastern Orthodox Church.

  • Byzantium is a noun and it was an ancient Greek city, founded in the 7th century BC, at the southern end of the Bosporus, site of the modern city of Istanbul.
  • It was rebuilt by Constantine the Great in 324–330 AD as Constantinople.
  • byzantine is an adjective , and it means: of or relating to Byzantium, the Byzantine Empire, or the Eastern Orthodox Church.
  • of an ornate artistic and architectural style that developed in the Byzantine Empire and spread esp.
  • to Italy and Russia.
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Byzantium is a noun and it was an ancient Greek city, founded in the 7th century BC, at the southern end of the Bosporus, site of the modern city of Istanbul. It was rebuilt by Constantine the Great in 324–330 AD as Constantinople.

byzantine is an adjective, and it means:
  • of or relating to Byzantium, the Byzantine Empire, or the Eastern Orthodox Chu

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