Byzantium

There are 1517 items in Byzantium:

Sentinum

Sentinum: town in ancient Umbria, best known for the Roman victory in the Third Samnite War in 295 BCE, which made the unification of Italy inevitable; modern Sassoferrato. …

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Sepphoris

Sepphoris (Greek Σέπφωρις; Hebrew צִפּוֹרִי‎: important city in Roman Galilee and one of the main centers of early Rabbinical Judaism, modern Tzipori.History Synagogue Sepphoris means…

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Serdica (Sofia)

Serdica: Roman town, modern Sofia.History Roman baths and Rotunda Church Thracian town, named after the original inhabitants, the Serdi After 342/341 BCE: briefly occupied…

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Sicily

Sicily: large and rich island opposite the Italian mainland. In Antiquity, it was settled by Phoenicians and Greeks, and contested by the Carthaginians, Romans, Ostrogoths, and Byzantines.Articles on Sicily Prehistory Polybius' decription of the Sicilian topography Homer on the Cyclops Colonization Thucydides on the colonization Polyaenus…

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Sicily (8)

Sicily: large and rich island opposite the Italian mainland. In Antiquity, it was settled by Phoenicians and Greeks, and contested by the Carthaginians, Romans, Ostrogoths, and Byzantines.Late Antiquity …

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