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The Great Stone is also thought to have been the base of an Anglo-Saxon cross shaft. [63] A local legend had it that the stone was slowly sinking into the earth, and that its ultimate disappearance would mark the end of the world. [78] When the Great Stone Road was widened in the late 19th century, the stone was moved back from the road slightly.
Like many monarchs before and since, Mehmed II transformed Istanbul's urban landscape with wholesale redevelopment of the city center. [70] There was a huge new palace to rival, if not overshadow, the old one, a new covered market (still standing as the Grand Bazaar), porticoes, pavilions, walkways, as well as more than a dozen new mosques. [69]