Bysants
Norwegian
Etymology
Borrowed from
Latin
Bȳzantium
.
Proper noun
Bysants
(
historical
)
Byzantium
(an
ancient
Greek
city
situated on the
Bosporus
in modern
Turkey
, renamed
Constantinople
in 330
C.E.
; modern
Istanbul
)
References
Douglas Harper (
2001–2025
) “
byzantium
”, in
Online Etymology Dictionary
.
Store norske leksikon'
s article on Byzantium