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Byzantium (Greek: Βυζάντιον) was an ancient Greek city. The name "Byzantium" is a Latinization of the original name Byzantion.
The city became the center of the Byzantine Empire, (the Greek-speaking Roman Empire of late Antiquity and the Middle Ages), but at that time it was already called Constantinople.[1]
- ↑ After the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire, the city became known as Istanbul to the Ottoman Turks, but that did not become the official name of the city until 1930.