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Byzantium

a Pleiades name resource

Creators: C. Foss

Contributors: R. Talbert, T. Elliott, Sean Gillies

Last modified Jan 27, 2022 08:15 AM — History

Romanized Name(s):
Byzantium

Name as attested:

Language:

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

Archaic (Greco-Roman; 750-550 BCE/BC) (confident)
Classical (Greco-Roman; 550 BC-330 BC) (confident)
Hellenistic Greek, Roman Republic (330 BC-30 BC) (confident)
Roman, early Empire (30 BC-AD 300) (confident)
Late Antique (AD 300-AD 640) (confident)

References:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 53 A2 Byzantium

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