All languages combined word senses marked with topical category "Byzantine Empire": list

Կոստանդնուպոլիս (Proper name) [Armenian] Constantinople (the former name of Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey; former capital of the Byzantine Empire)

Կոստանդնուպօլիս (Proper name) [Old Armenian] Constantinople (the ancient capital of the Byzantine Empire, in modern Turkey; modern Istanbul)

Նիկիա (Proper name) [Armenian] Nicaea

Վաղես (Proper name) [Armenian] Valens

Քաղկեդոն (Proper name) [Armenian] Chalcedon (an ancient maritime town in Bithynia, Asia Minor, in modern Turkey)

բյուզանդացի (Noun) [Armenian] Byzantine

կատապան (Noun) [Armenian] a title of governors in medieval Armenia

կատապան (Noun) [Old Armenian] gardener; watcher of a garden

專制國 (Noun) [Chinese] despotate

拜占庭帝國 (Proper name) [Chinese] Byzantine Empire

東ローマ帝国 (Proper name) [Japanese] the Eastern Roman Empire

ⲃⲉⲗⲓⲥⲁⲣⲁⲓⲟⲥ (Proper name) [Coptic] a general of the Byzantine Empire, who was instrumental to Emperor Justinian's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire, which had been lost less than a century previously.

ⲓⲟⲩⲥⲧⲓⲛⲓⲁⲛⲟⲥ (Proper name) [Coptic] a male given name from Greek, equivalent to English Justinian

Византий (Proper name) [Russian] Byzantium (an ancient Greek city situated on the Bosporus in modern Turkey, named Constantinople in 330 C.E.; modern Istanbul).

Византия (Proper name) [Russian] the Byzantine Empire

Візантій (Proper name) [Ukrainian] Byzantium (an ancient Greek city situated on the Bosporus in modern Turkey, named Constantinople in 330 C.E.; modern Istanbul).

Візантійська імперія (Proper name) [Ukrainian] Byzantine Empire (a former empire)

Візантія (Proper name) [Ukrainian] the Byzantine Empire

Константинополь (Proper name) [Russian] Constantinople (the former name of Istanbul, the largest city of Turkey)

Константинополь (Proper name) [Ukrainian] Constantinople (the former name of Istanbul, the largest city of Turkey)

Палеолог (Proper name) [Serbo-Croatian] Palaeologus (Byzantine dynastic name)

Царгород (Proper name) [Ukrainian] Istanbul, Constantinople (the largest city in Turkey)

Цареград (Proper name) [Ukrainian] Istanbul, Constantinople (the largest city in Turkey)

византиец (Noun) [Russian] Byzantine (native of Byzantium)

византийский (Adjective) [Russian] Byzantine (relating to the Byzantine Empire)

візантійський (Adjective) [Ukrainian] Byzantine (relating to the Byzantine Empire)

Βάραγγοι (Proper name) [Ancient Greek] the Varangians (a medieval tribe or ethnic grouping of Norse origin)

Βάραγγοι (Proper name) [Greek] the Varangians (a medieval tribe or ethnic grouping of Norse origin)

Βάραγγος (Proper name) [Ancient Greek] Varangian; a soldier of Nordic or Anglo-Saxon origin, most distinguished for forming the elite Varangian Guard army unit in the Byzantine Empire, serving as the personal bodyguard of the Byzantine Roman Emperor in Constantinople

Βάραγγος (Proper name) [Greek] Varangian; a soldier of Nordic or Anglo-Saxon origin, most distinguished for forming the elite Varangian Guard army unit in the Byzantine Empire, serving as the personal bodyguard of the Byzantine Roman Emperor in Constantinople

Κωνσταντινούπολις (Proper name) [Ancient Greek] Constantinople (the capital of the Byzantine Empire; contemporary Istanbul in Turkey)

Μονομάχος (Proper name) [Ancient Greek] a male surname, equivalent to Latin Monomachus or English Monomachos

Πράσινοι (Proper name) [Ancient Greek] the Greens, one of the usual chariot-racing factions of Rome, Constantinople, and other major cities of the empire

ανθύπατος (Noun) [Greek] proconsul or provincial governor (in the Roman or Byzantine empires)

δεσπότης (Noun) [Greek] Lord (term of address for God)

θέμα (Noun) [Greek] theme

θέμα (Noun) [Greek] theme, the regional unit of government of the Byzantine empire.

κεφαλή (Noun) [Ancient Greek] a person's life (often in the sense of being in danger, similar to the English idiom "head is on the line").

πρωτόκολλον (Noun) [Ancient Greek] first sheet of a papyrus-roll, bearing the official authentication and date of manufacture of the papyrus

Ἰουστινιανός (Proper name) [Ancient Greek] Justinian

Ῥωμανία (Proper name) [Ancient Greek] Roman Empire

Ῥωμανός (Noun) [Ancient Greek] Synonym of Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos)

Ῥωμαῖος (Noun) [Ancient Greek] a citizen of the Byzantine Empire

Ῥωμαῖος (Noun) [Ancient Greek] an Eastern Orthodox Christian

비잔티온 (Proper name) [Korean] Byzantium (ancient Greek city situated on the Bosporus in modern Turkey, later called Constantinople; modern Istanbul)

비잔티움 (Proper name) [Korean] Byzantium (ancient Greek city situated on the Bosporus in modern Turkey, later called Constantinople; modern Istanbul)

비잔티움 제국 (Proper name) [Korean] Byzantine Empire

콘스탄티노폴리스 (Proper name) [Korean] Constantinople (the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, in modern Turkey, named after Constantine, Roman emperor)

アレクサンドロス (Proper name) [Japanese] Alexander

コンスタンティノープル (Proper name) [Japanese] Constantinople (the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, in modern Turkey)

ビザンティン (Noun) [Japanese] the quality of being Byzantine

ビザンティン帝国 (Proper name) [Japanese] Synonym of 東ローマ帝国 (Higashi Rōma Teikoku, “Eastern Roman Empire”); the Byzantine Empire

ܪܘܡܐ (Proper name) [Classical Syriac] Roman Empire

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