Byzantium

How To Use Byzantium In A Sentence

• Under the pontificate of his former pupil Paul II (1464-1471), he returned to Rome and was appointed a papal abbreviator, but became involved in fresh quarrels in 1465 he visited Crete and Byzantium, and then returned to Rome, where he wrote the account of the martyrdom of Bl. Andrew of Chios The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
• In the years after 1204, a vast number of Byzantium artifacts, silks, ivories, enamels and jewels found their way into western cathedral treasuries. The Glories of Byzantium
• Some are encrusted with costume jewelry, evoking the roughly bejeweled icons of Byzantium.
• Byzantium, Gaeta had then, like Naples and Amalfi, a republican form of government under a "dux" or lord. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
• If the bold scheme could be carried through there would again be a Roman emperor in the West, Latin Christianity would stand strong and unified against schismatic Byzantium and threatening Saracens, and, by the awe and magic of the imperial name, barbarized Europe might reach back across centuries of darkness, and inherit and Christianize the civilization and culture of the ancient world. Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814
• Clinton-Baddeley read ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ as emended and with interpretive notes by Yeats: Later Articles and Reviews
• Archelaus was also sent, a man of patrician standing who had already been pretorian prefect both in Byzantium and in Illyricum, but he then held the position of prefect of the army; for thus the officer charged with the maintenance of the army is designated. History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War
• After the victory over the Persians in 479 B. C. the Greeks offered this tripod at the oracle of Delphi, from where it was brought to Byzantium.
• The sun of the Roman Empire set, so to speak, in the East, and it is to Byzantium we must turn our eyes for the continuation of the art of horsemanship as of the Fine Arts.
• Conversely, he does not believe that modern ideologies such as Marxism, post-structuralism, and nationalism are useful tools for the historian of Byzantium.