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  2. Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    Constantinople [a] (see other names) was a historical city located on the Bosporus that served as the capital of the Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman empires between its consecration in 330 until 1930, when it was renamed to Istanbul.

  3. Forum of Constantine - Wikipedia

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    The Forum of Constantine (Greek: Φόρος Κωνσταντίνου, romanized: Fóros Konstantínou; Latin: Forum Constantini) was built at the foundation of Constantinople immediately outside the old city walls of Byzantium. It marked the centre of the new city, and was a central point along the Mese, the main ceremonial road through the ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Forum of the Ox - Wikipedia

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    Map of Byzantine Constantinople. The Forum Bovis is located near the middle section of the sea walls, about 350 m. north of the Eleutherion harbor.. The Forum of the Ox (Latin: Forum Bovis, Greek: ὁ Bοῦς, meaning "the Ox") was a public square (Latin: Forum) in the city of Constantinople (today's Istanbul).

  6. Augustaion - Wikipedia

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    The Augustaion lay in the eastern part of Constantinople, which in the early and middle Byzantine periods constituted the administrative, religious and ceremonial center of the city. The square was a rectangular open space, enclosed within a colonnaded porticoes ( peristyla in Latin, in English peristyles ), [ 3 ] probably first added in the ...

  7. Capitolium of Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    The Capitolium of Constantinople (Latin: Capitolium Constantinopolis; Ancient Greek: Καπιτώλιον) was a public edifice erected in Constantinople (today's Istanbul) by Emperor Constantine the Great. Founded as a capitolium (a temple dedicated to the Capitoline Triad), in the fifth century it was turned into an institute of higher education.

  8. Mangana (Constantinople) - Wikipedia

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    Since its construction, the Byzantine imperial court made annual visits to the monastery on April 23, which was the feast day of Saint George. [3] This tradition was interrupted during the Fourth Crusade in 1204, after which Latin monks briefly occupied the monastery, until the Reconquest of Constantinople by the Byzantines in 1261. [3]

  9. Great Palace of Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    The Great Palace of Constantinople (Greek: Μέγα Παλάτιον, Méga Palátion; Latin: Palatium Magnum), also known as the Sacred Palace (Greek: Ἱερὸν Παλάτιον, Hieròn Palátion; Latin: Sacrum Palatium), was the large imperial Byzantine palace complex located in the south-eastern end of the peninsula today making up the ...