The city was originally founded as a Greek colony under the name of Byzantium in the 7th century BC.

Historians generally refer to the continuing Roman Empire in the east as the Byzantine Empire after Byzantium, the original name of the town that Constantine I would elevate to the Imperial capital as New Rome in 330 AD.

The system was further refined by his student Aristophanes of Byzantium, who first introduced the asterisk and used a symbol resembling a ⊤ for an obelus ; and finally by Aristophanes ' student, in turn, Aristarchus, from whom they earned the name of ' Aristarchian symbols '.

Jonathan Bate speculates that the name Andronicus could have come from Andronikos V Palaiologos, co-emperor of Byzantium from 1403 – 1407, but as it is unknown how Shakespeare could have been familiar with these individuals, and it is thought more likely that he took the name from the story " Andronicus and the lion " in Antonio de Guevara's Epistolas familiares.

Yet another theory is that the name may have had its origins in the efforts made by Russia's tsars to distinguish themselves from their predecessors in Rome and Byzantium ( on the basis that Russia was the " Third Rome ").

Livy says merely that the colony was sent in Thurinum agrum, and does not mention anything of a change of name ; but Strabo tells us that they gave to the new colony the name of Copiae, and this statement is confirmed both by Stephanus of Byzantium, and by the evidence of coins, on which, however, the name is written " COPIA ".

Other accounts about the origin of the river and its name are given by Stephanus of Byzantium, Strabo, and Plutarch.

Amyrus, eponym of a Thessalian city, is given by Stephanus of Byzantium as " one of the Argonauts "; he is otherwise said to have been a son of Poseidon and to have given his name to the river Amyrus.

Vitalian's name was entered on the diptychs of the churches in Byzantium — the only name of a pope so entered between the reign of Honorius I ( d. 638 ) and the Sixth Ecumenical Council of 680 – 81.

It was not until the Sixth Ecumenical Council ( 681 ) that Monothelitism was suppressed and Vitalian's name was replaced on the diptychs of the churches in Byzantium.

Stephanus of Byzantium informs that Cinyras ' mother was named Amathousa, and it was either from her or Amathous, a son of Heracles, that Amathous, the oldest city of Cyprus, received its name.

Or perhaps Stephanus of Byzantium was correct in stating in his geographical dictionary that Nemausos, the city of Gaul, took its name from the Heracleid ( or son of Heracles ) Nemausios.

However, both the Greek letter " β " ( v ) and the Cyrillic " в " ( v ) have been historically Romanized as " b " ( other examples include " Βυζάντιον ", Vizantion → Byzantium ; the Greek name " Βασίλειος ", Vassilios and the Russian " Василий ", Vassily → Basil, the Byzantine title " σεβαστοκράτωρ "/" севастократор " sevastokrator → sebastokrator, etc .).

In his memoirs, John C. Frémont wrote, " To this Gate I gave the name of " Chrysopylae ", or " Golden Gate "; for the same reasons that the harbor of Byzantium was called Chrysoceras, or Golden Horn.

According to Stephanus of Byzantium, he called this city " thuateira " from Greek " θυγατήρ ", " θυγατέρα " ( thugater, thugatera ), meaning " daughter ", although it is likely that it is an older, Lydian name.

Meanwhile, Niger was busy securing the support of all of the governors in the Asiatic provinces, including the esteemed proconsul of Asia, Asellius Aemilianus, who had occupied Byzantium in Niger ’ s name.

Hermolaus dedicated his epitome to Justinian ; whether the first or second emperor of that name is meant is disputed, but it seems probable that Stephanus flourished in Byzantium in the earlier part of the sixth century AD, under Justinian I.

In 1946, when the Consulta Araldica — the body that advised the Kingdom of Italy on matters of nobility — ceased operations, the Tribunal of Naples recognized his numerous titles, so his complete name was changed from Antonio Clemente to ‘ Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Ducas Komnenos Gagliardi de Curtis of Byzantium, His Imperial Highness, Palatine Count, Knight of the Holy Roman Empire, Exarch of Ravenna, Duke of Macedonia and Illyria, Prince of Constantinople, Cilicia, Thessaly, Pontus, Moldavia, Dardania, Peloponnesus, Count of Cyprus and Epirus, Count and Duke of Drivasto and Durazzo ".

* The Golden Gate ( the strait that connects the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco Bay ), was named on 1 July 1846 by explorer John C. Frémont who wrote, " To this Gate I gave the name of Chrysopylae, or Golden Gate ; for the same reasons that the harbor of Byzantium was called Chrysoceras, or Golden Horn.

`` Oh, it's that myth, about Orpheus and What is her name??

She said, `` My name is Songau and these girls are Ponkob and Piwen.

`` What is your name, boy??

`` My name is Dandy Brandon, missy.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.

Operating as a one man police force in fact if not in name, he is at once more independent and more dedicated than the police themselves.

Within this frame of reference policies appropriate to claims advanced in the name of the Jews depend upon which Jewish identity is involved, as well as upon the nature of the claim, the characteristics of the claimant, the justifications proposed, and the predispositions of the community decision makers who are called upon to act.

When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.

`` What is your name ''??

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

Milton's name being fourth is neither too high nor too low to be assigned to the arbitrary action of vice-chancellor, proctor, master, or other mighty hand.

He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

Much more important is to grasp the feelings of the narrator ( whose full name is never given ) as he becomes aware of the disorganized and bewildered mass of French prisoners clustered together in a temporary prison camp in and around the cathedral of Chartres.

But it is tradition rather than the record which balks at the expunging of the Tammany name.

After the Griffin-Byrd political troup has completed the circuit in November in the name of a Pre-Legislative Forum, this is going to be the most politically oriented Legislature in history.

The big question is whether, in the name of a restored Chinese-Soviet solidarity, the Chinese will choose to persuade the Albanians to present their humble apologies to Khrushchev -- or get rid of Enver Hoxa.

It is the same ole same, tell me its name.

And the name Rayburn is one of the most dominant in the history of American politics for the last half century.

You name it, our industry is producing it, and it probably is made in different models.