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.
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