From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Byzantium \Byzantium\ prop. n. An ancient city on the Bosphorus founded by the Greeks. It was later renamed {Constaninople} in honor of the emperor Constantine, and renamed {Istanbul} by the Turks, which name it still retains. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: 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
2: a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395 [syn: {Byzantine Empire}, {Eastern Roman Empire}]
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