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• Byzant

  bezant (def 2). Historical Examples The Passing of the Turkish Empire in Europe B. Granville Baker Ivanhoe Walter Scott

• Byzantine

  of or relating to Byzantium. of or relating to the Byzantine Empire. noting or pertaining to the architecture of the Byzantine Empire and to architecture influenced by or imitating it: characterized by masonry construction, round arches, impost blocks, low domes on pendentives, the presence of fine, spiky foliage patterns in low relief on stone capitals […]

• Byzantine-chant

  liturgical plainsong identified with the Eastern Orthodox Church and dating from the Byzantine Empire.

• Byzantine-church

  Orthodox Church (def 1). noun another name for the Orthodox Church

• Byzantine-empire

  the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the Western Empire in a.d. 476. Capital: Constantinople. noun the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East, esp after the deposition of the last emperor in Rome (476 ad). It was finally extinguished by the fall of Constantinople, its capital, in 1453 See also Eastern Roman […]

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