Byzantine /(bĭ*zăn"tĭn)/
By·zan·tine
Byzantine
a.
- Of or pertaining to Byzantium.
Phrases & Compounds
- Byzantine church
- the Eastern or Greek church, as distinguished from the Western or Roman or Latin church. See under Greek.
- Byzantine empire
- the Eastern Roman or Greek empire from a. d. 364 or a. d. 395 to the capture of Constantinople by the Turks, a. d. 1453.
- Byzantine historians
- historians and writers (Zonaras, Procopius, etc.) who lived in the Byzantine empire.
- Byzantine style
- a style of architecture developed in the Byzantine empire.