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  2. Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    Map of Constantinople (1422) by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonti [44] is the oldest surviving map of the city, and the only one that predates the Turkish conquest of the city in 1453. The current Hagia Sophia was commissioned by Emperor Justinian I after the previous one was destroyed in the Nika riots of 532. It was converted ...

  3. Walls of Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    Old map of Constantinople showing the location of the wall (border) of the city (Modern day Fatih) According to tradition, the city was founded as Byzantium by Greek colonists from the Attic town of Megara, led by the eponymous Byzas, around 658 BC. [2]

  4. Istanbul - Wikipedia

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    Istanbul [b] is the largest city ... Constantinople remained the most common name for the city in the West until the 1930s, ... Map of Istanbul in the 16th century by ...

  5. Seven hills of Istanbul - Wikipedia

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    Map of Byzantine Constantinople with the hills names in brown. The seven hills, all located in the area within the walls, first appeared when the valleys of the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus were opened up during the Secondary and Tertiary periods.

  6. File:Constantinople area map.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: Map of Constantinople (modern Istanbul) and its environs during Byzantine times. ... Constantinople and its Hinterland, Variorum 1995, pp. xii-xiii, 110-111 ...

  7. History of Istanbul - Wikipedia

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    A map of the city from a 17th-century copy of the Piri Reis book, Kitab-ı Bahriye refers to the city as Kostantiniyye (Walters Art Museum collection). North is at the bottom. The Prince Islands are at the top. The old city of Constantinople or Stamboul (modern-day Fatih) is on the right.

  8. Great Palace of Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    Map of the administrative heart of Constantinople. The structures of the Great Palace are shown in their approximate position as derived from literary sources. Surviving structures are in black. The palace was located in the southeastern corner of the peninsula where Constantinople is situated, behind the Hippodrome and the Hagia Sophia.

  9. Aqueduct of Valens - Wikipedia

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    The Aqueduct of Valens (Turkish: Valens Su Kemeri, Ancient Greek: Ἀγωγὸς τοῦ ὕδατος, romanized: Agōgós tou hýdatos, lit. 'aqueduct') was a Roman aqueduct system built in the late 4th century AD, to supply Constantinople – the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.

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