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The Treatment of Byzantine Place-Names

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Anthony Bryer*
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham, Centre for Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek

Abstract

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Short Notes
Copyright
Copyright © The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 1985

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3. Constantinople in the early eighth century: the Parastaseis Syntomoi, edd. Cameron, Averil and Herrin, Judith (Leiden 1984) 132, 242-43 Google Scholar, has a memory that Constantinople was so named on the eve of its birthday. Cf.Dagron, G., Naissance d’une capitale. Constantinople et ses institutions de 330 à 451 (Paris 1974) 40 Google Scholar.

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