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Bizantium

Bizantium is the obsolete spelling of Byzantium.

Meaning of Byzantium

Proper noun

Byzantium

  1. (historical) An ancient Greek city situated on the Bosporus in modern Turkey, renamed Constantinople in 330 C.E.; modern Istanbul.
  2. (broadly, historical) An ancient Greek empire in Southeastern Europe and Western Asia, with its capital at Constantinople; in full, Byzantine Empire.

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Questions about Bizantium

What is Bizantium the obsolete spelling of?
Bizantium is the obsolete spelling of Byzantium.

Words near Bizantium in the dictionary

  1. biz
  2. biz-atch
  3. biz-atches
  4. Bizantian
  5. Bizantine
  6. Bizantium
  7. bizarre
  8. bizarre caddisflies
  9. bizarre caddisfly
  10. bizarre magic
  11. bizarrely

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Bizantium (page history and authors); Byzantium (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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