Byzantium
"Byzantium" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An ancient city, the site of modern Istanbul. From the 4th to 15th centuries the empire extended from southeastern Europe to western Asia, reaching its greatest extent under Justinian (527-565). By about 1000 A.D. it comprised the southern Balkans, Greece, Asia Minor, and parts of southern Italy. The capture of Constantinople in 1453 marked the formal end of the Byzantine Empire. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988)
| Descriptor ID |
D018612
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.586.035.175
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