AHC: new meaning for the Tetragrammic Cross under a modern Byzantine Republic

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The Palaiologan Tetragrammic Cross is often associated to the Byzantine Empire as its national flag par excellence. The four betas on each corner (the so-called “firesteels”) originally mean Basileus Basileōn, Basileuōn Basileuontōn, i.e. “King of Kings, Ruling over Kings”.

Your challenge, should you accept it, is to devise a new meaning for the firesteels - a national motto using the four Bs under a Byzantium which has survived into modern times and has undergone a secular republican revolution (though not necessarily abolishing the monarchy). The old meaning, excessively monarchic and religious, is no longer fit in this scenario. The new motto can be spelled either in Greek or Latin.
 
This does run into the issue that "Balkans" is a Turkish word and "Byzantium" was assigned after the fall of the empire, but a late Paleologoi revival might see a state weak enough to allow external definitions

Bouli Bassilevousas, Balkanion Basilevounton
"Council of Constantinople*, ruling over the Balkans"
*Bassilevousas ("the ruling one") was one of the names of Constantinople

Bouli Bathystohasti, Boulimata Bathyplouta - "council of deep wisdom, plans of great riches"

Basileia Byzantion, Bythinias Kai Boulgarias -
"Kingdom of Byzantium, Bythinia and Bulgaria"

Basileus Balkanion ek tou Boulimatos Balkanion
"King of the Balkans, by the will of the Balkans"
 
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