Byzantium 

A totally fagged out place located on the sea of mamara that divides the black sea and the mediterranean. Constantine thought it wuz tight so he made it the second capitol of the roman empire. He made it all like an uber fort city, and eventually built walls which justinian would later expand on.

Constantinople-Cool Byzantines
Istanbul-whack turks

Byzantium by hisotry gangsta June 28, 2004

Byzantine Empire 

The one and only true Roman successor unlike the Holy Roman Empire buttholes.

1. I miss the Byzantine Empire, forget the Holy Roman Empire and Frankish Empires
2. The Byzantine Empire should have won 1453
3. The Byzantine Empire will destroy those Holy Roman Empire Infidels

Byzantine Empire by bakfjeidfjhgjriedfjgnjrkerjfhg April 12, 2021

BYZANTINE 

Highly complicated; intricate and involved

That play was byzantine and I had difficulty following the twists and turns of the plot with its myriad of characters.

BYZANTINE by j February 14, 2005

Byzantine Power 

Doing or saying anything that reminds a person of a time when Western civilisation wasn't full of relativist, wet, floppy, angst-ridden, anti-capitalist, Palestine-supporting, multiculturalist pro-EUrs and instead of a time when Christian morality, Roman law, Greek thought and monoculturalism created and maintained an Empire from 753BC to 1453AD.

Look at that Church! It's so Byzantine Power.

Did you like his speech? Yes, it was so Byzantine Power.

Look at THAT! I know... he's so not Byzantine power.

Byzantine Power by Hopmeister October 24, 2011

Byzantine 

The Byzantine Empire was the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived for a thousand years after the western half had crumbled into various feudal kingdoms and which finally fell to Ottoman Turkish onslaughts in 1453.
The city of Byzantium grew from an ancient Greek colony founded on the European side of the Bosporus.
In AD 330 the Roman emperor Constantine I, in an attempt to strengthen the empire, refounded Byzantium as Constantinople, the 'New Rome' and capital of the eastern half of the empire.
At his death in 395 Emperor Theodosius I divided the empire between his two sons, and it was never reunited.
Theodosius also made Christianity (Eastern Orthodox) the sole religion of the empire, and Constantinople assumed preeminence over other Christian centers in the East as Rome did in the West.

The fall of Rome to the Ostrogoths in 476 marked the end of the western half of the Roman Empire. The eastern half continued as the Byzantine Empire, with Constantinople as its capital. Constantine the Great wanted this city to be built from scratch as the center of the Christian world. The origional Christianity religion Eastern Orthodox church split into differnent factions, The great schism between Eastern and Western churches was mutually agreed to in 1054.

Byzantine by CrnaStrela September 6, 2005

Byzantine 

1: Byzantium, the eternal. The unchanging. The centre of the world. Empire that was born of Rome, surpassing even that ancient glory. For over 2000 years the heirs of the Caesars ruled from their capital on the Bosphorus. There were dark days of terror and despair, many lands were lost to foes, but in the end the triumph was their's. An empire that was lost, had been regained. A flame long snuffed out, was rekindled. A glory once tarnished, had been reborn.

The Byzantine Empire was once known as the Later Roman Empire.

Byzantine by Ianus Hohnus February 21, 2005

byzantine empire 

1. A mainly greek empire, wildly considered to be the inheritor of roman tradition and political power and prestige, from 476 (when Rome fell, thus making Constantinople, or Byzantium, the capital of the roman world) to 1453 (when Constantinople fell, in true roman tradition).

2. Replaces any seemingly complex historical or technical concept generally used to show one's knowledge, often in an attempt to gain respect.

Dude #1 - Dude, did you know the byzantine empire lost all of Egypt in 642 CE?

Dude #2- Dude, no way!

byzantine empire by Nabuchodonosor February 16, 2018