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ByzantiumAncient Greek city on the Bosporus, founded as a colony of the Greek city of Megara on an important strategic site at the entrance to the Black Sea about 660 BC. In AD 330 the capital of the Roman Empire was transferred there by Constantine the Great, who renamed it Constantinople and it became the capital of the Byzantine Empire to which it gave its name. |
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| There was already an ancient town there named Byzantium, but he transformed it into a new and splendid city. I'll give thee, good fellow, a twelvemonth or twain, To search Europe through, from Byzantium to Spain; But ne'er shall you find, should you search till you tire, So happy a man as the Barefooted Friar. We in Russia refuse to see that we are the heirs of Byzantium," and he launched into a long and heated explanation of his views. |
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