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byzantium
geographical name(Is-tan-bul)
city in northwestern Turkey partly in Europe and partly in Asia on the Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara; capital of Turkey before its independence in 1923 and earlier capital of the Ottoman Empire population 12,500,000
byzantium
biographical name(Is-tan-bul)
circa 257—180 b.c. Greek scholar

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