Noun byzantium has 2 senses
  1. Byzantium - 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
    --1 is a kind of
    city, metropolis, urban center
    --1 is a part of Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Eastern Roman Empire
    --1 has member: Byzantine
  2. Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Eastern Roman Empire - a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395
    --2 is a kind of geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
    --2 is a part of Roman Empire
    --2 has parts: Byzantium
    --2 has members: Byzantine
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