Latin word senses marked with topical category "Turkey"

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Parent categories: Countries, Countries in Asia, Countries in Europe, Polities, Places, Asia, Europe, Names, Earth, Eurasia, Nature
Subcategories: History of Turkey

Total 16 word senses

• Amorium (Proper name) Amorium, Amorion (a city in Phrygia, Asia Minor), legendary birthplace of Aesop, growing into significance in the Hellenistic and Byzantine eras until destroyed by the Arab Sack of Amorium in 838; home of the famed 42 Martyrs of Amorium executed for refusing to submit to Islam in 845; now in modern-day Turkey
• Ancyra (Proper name) Ankara (the capital city of Turkey)
• Barca (Proper name) a surname from Punic, particularly (historical) a dynasty of Carthaginian leaders.
• Byzantion (Proper name) Alternative form of Bȳzantium (“Byzantium, ancient city on the Bosporus founded c. 660 BC, becoming an Eastern Roman capital named Constantinople from c. AD 330-1930; now called Istanbul”)
• Byzantium (Proper name) Byzantium (ancient Greek city situated on the Bosporus in modern Turkey, later called Constantinople; modern Istanbul)
• Carthago Nova (Proper name) Former name of Carthagenna, Cartagena (a city in Spain)
• Cyzicus (Proper name) Cyzicus (an ancient town in Turkey)
• Dorylaeum (Proper name) Dorylaeum (a former city in central Anatolia, near the city of Eskisehir in present-day Turkey)
• Iustinianus (Proper name) a male given name from Iūstīnus, feminine equivalent Iūstīniāna, equivalent to Koine Greek Ἰουστινιανός (Ioustinianós) or English Justinian
• Iustinus (Proper name) a male given name, feminine equivalent Iūstīna, equivalent to Koine Greek Ἰουστῖνος (Ioustînos) or English Justin
• Rosologiacum (Proper name) A town in Galatia
• Tiberius (Proper name) a male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Emperors of the Byzantine Roman Empire Tiberius II Constantinus (r. 574–582 C.E.) and Tiberius III (r. 698–705 C.E.)
• Varingi (Proper name) the Varangians (a medieval tribe or ethnic grouping of Norse origin)
• Varingus (Proper name) 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
• Zeno (Proper name) Zeno
• Zenon (Proper name) a male given name from Ancient Greek, feminine equivalent Zēna, equivalent to Ancient Greek Ζήνων (Zḗnōn) or English Zeno

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