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Byzantium  

Type

  • Geographical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Byzantine Empire

Note

  • the ancient city or empire: note X ref

Scope note

  • An ancient city, the site of modern Istanbul. From the 4th to 15th centuries the empire extended from southeastern Europe to western Asia, reaching its greatest extent under Justinian (527-565). By about 1000 A.D. it comprised the southern Balkans, Greece, Asia Minor, and parts of southern Italy. The capture of Constantinople in 1453 marked the formal end of the Byzantine Empire. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988)

History note

  • 95

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018612

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