Bysans

Swedish

Proper noun

Bysans n

  1. (historical) Byzantium (an ancient Greek city situated on the Bosporus in modern Turkey, renamed Constantinople in 330 C.E.; modern Istanbul)
  2. (historical, by extension) Byzantium, Byzantine Empire (an ancient Greek empire in Southeastern Europe and Western Asia, with its capital at Constantinople; in full, Byzantine Empire)
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