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The first Hippodrome in today's Istanbul was built by the Roman emperor Septimius Severus in the beginning of the 3rd century as one of series of reconstructions in ancient Byzantium. In fact, he was the one who had punished Byzantium and destroyed almost the entire city for supporting his enemy, clearly the loosing side. The hippodrome was enlarged and renovated by Constantine the Great when the city was made the capital of the eastern Roman Empire as Constantinople in the 4th century. Some claims that the capacity of the hippodrome reached 100,000 seats, but recent findings show that this figure appears to be exaggerated.
No. Byzantine is an adjective connoting the eastern part of the Roman empire, from the city named Byzantium, its seat of government. Chariot races were held in a circus in the west and in a hippodrome in the east.
Byzantium was a city and it was the capitol of the eastern Roman empire. The eastern part of the empire was/is often called the Byzantine. So to make it (hopefully) clear, Byzantium was the capital of the Byzantine empire.
Byzantium The Lost Empire - 1997 was released on: USA: 1997
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Byzantium Emipre
Milan in the Western Empire and Byzantium in the Eastern Empire.
The Byzantium Empire.
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Byzantium
Byzantium, renamed Constantinople.
The name of the building or arena where the Roman chariot races were held was the Circus Maximus in Rome and the Hippodrome in Byzantium/Constantinople.