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Byzantium
ancient Greek settlement in Thrace on the European side of the Bosphorus, said to be named for its 7c. B.C.E. founder,
Byzas
of Megara. A place of little consequence until 330 C.E., when Constantine the Great re-founded it and made it his capital (see
Constantinople
).
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