Byzantium
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Location of Byzantion Byzantium （/bɪˈzæntiəm, -ʃəm/） or Byzantion （Greek: Βυζάντιον） was an ancient Greek city in classical antiquity that became known as Constantinople in late antiquity and Istanbul today.
The Greek name Byzantion and its Latinization Byzantium continued to be used as a name of Constantinople sporadically and to varying degrees during the thousand year existence of the Byzantine Empire.
Byzantium was colonized by the Greeks from Megara in 657 BC, and remained primarily Greek-speaking until its conquest by the Ottoman Empire in AD 1453.
The etymology of Byzantium is unknown.
It has been suggested that the name is of Thracian origin.
It may be derived from the Thracian personal name Byzas which means "he-goat".
Ancient Greek legend refers to the Greek king Byzas, the leader of the Megarian colonists and founder of the city.
The name Lygos for the city, which likely corresponds to an earlier Thracian settlement, is mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History.
Byzántios, plural Byzántioi （Ancient Greek: Βυζάντιος, Βυζάντιοι, Latin: Byzantius; adjective the same） referred to Byzantion's inhabitants, also used as an ethnonym for the people of the city and as a family name.
In the Middle Ages, Byzántion was also a synecdoche for the eastern Roman Empire.
（An ellipsis of Medieval Greek: Βυζάντιον κράτος, romanized: Byzántion krátos）.
Byzantinós （Medieval Greek: Βυζαντινός, Latin: Byzantinus） denoted an inhabitant of the empire.
The Anglicization of Latin Byzantinus yielded "Byzantine", with 15th and 16th century forms including Byzantin, Bizantin（e）, Bezantin（e）, and Bysantin as well as Byzantian and Bizantian.
The name ...