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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. 14 regions of Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    Map of the regions of Byzantine Constantinople. The ancient city of Constantinople was divided into 14 administrative regions (Latin: regiones, Greek: συνοικιες, romanized: synoikies). The system of fourteen regiones was modelled on the fourteen regiones of Rome, a system introduced by the first Roman emperor Augustus in the 1st ...

  4. 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. [1]

  5. History of Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    Map of Constantinople in the Byzantine Era (before the Ottoman conquest) Sultan Bayezid I considered taking Constantinople, but he was occupied with wars in the west and east and did not want to divert significant forces to storm the well-fortified city. He decided to take Constantinople by force, and for seven years, beginning in 1394, he ...

  6. 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.

  7. File:Siege of Constantinople 1453 map-en.svg - Wikipedia

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  8. Harbour of Eleutherios - Wikipedia

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    Map of Constantinople during the Byzantine era Steelyard weight found in the Port of Theodosius. The Harbour of Eleutherios (Medieval Greek: λιμήν Ἐλευθερίου), originally known as the Harbour of Theodosius (Latin: Portus Theodosiacus, Ancient Greek: λιμήν Θεοδοσίου) was one of the ports of ancient Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, located ...

  9. Mese (Constantinople) - Wikipedia

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    Map of Byzantine Constantinople. The Mese (Greek: ἡ Μέση [Ὀδός] i Mése [Odós], lit. "Middle [Street]") was the main thoroughfare of ancient Constantinople and the scene of many Byzantine imperial processions. Its ancient course is largely followed by the modern Divan Yolu ("Road to the Divan").