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    The Hippodrome of Constantinople (Greek: Ἱππόδρομος τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, romanized: Hippódromos tēs Kōnstantinoupóleōs; Latin: Circus Maximus Constantinopolitanus;...
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  • Maritima Circus Maximus Gerasa Hippodrome of Berytus Hippodrome of Constantinople Hippodrome of Thessalonica Tyre Hippodrome Miróbriga (Mirobriga Celticorum)...
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    emperors lived; the Hippodrome; the Golden Gate of the Land Walls; and opulent aristocratic palaces. The University of Constantinople was founded in the...
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    refounded Byzantium as Constantinople in 330, he planned out a palace for himself. The palace was located between the Hippodrome and Hagia Sophia. The...
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    Horses of Saint Mark (category Hippodrome of Constantinople)
    Marco), also known as the Triumphal Quadriga or Horses of the Hippodrome of Constantinople, is a set of bronze statues of four horses, originally part of...
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    The sack of Constantinople occurred in April 1204 and marked the culmination of the Fourth Crusade. Crusader armies captured, looted, and destroyed parts...
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    Obelisk of Theodosius (category Hippodrome of Constantinople)
    erected during the 18th dynasty of Egypt. It was re-erected in the Hippodrome of Constantinople (known today as At Meydanı or Sultanahmet Meydanı, in the modern...
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  • Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Sultanahmet Mosque) Sultanahmet Square (Hippodrome of Constantinople) Sultanahmet Jail, now a hotel Sultan Ahmed Mosque (disambiguation):...
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    The fall of Constantinople, also known as the conquest of Constantinople, was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire...
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  • Asunción, Paraguay Hippodrome, Bamako, a quartier of Bamako, the capital of Mali Covered Hippodrome, part of the Great Palace of Constantinople in Istanbul,...
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    Walled Obelisk (category Hippodrome of Constantinople)
    is a Roman monument in the form of an obelisk in the former Hippodrome of Constantinople, now Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul, Turkey. It is situated west...
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  • Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey). It has been identified with a palatial structure excavated in the 1940s and 1950s close to the Hippodrome of...
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    it transported to Constantinople and put up on the spina of the Hippodrome there. When re-erected at the Hippodrome of Constantinople, the obelisk was...
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    the tumult of the Nika Revolt, which had begun nearby in the Hippodrome of Constantinople, and the second Hagia Sophia was burnt to the ground on 13–14...
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    Serpent Column (category Hippodrome of Constantinople)
    Tripod or Delphi Tripod, is an ancient bronze column at the Hippodrome of Constantinople (known as Atmeydanı "Horse Square" in the Ottoman period) in...
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    "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" is a 1953 novelty song, with lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy and music by Nat Simon. It was written on the 500th anniversary of...
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    The Walls of Constantinople (Turkish: Konstantinopolis Surları; Greek: Τείχη της Κωνσταντινουπόλεως) are a series of defensive stone walls that have surrounded...
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  • of Constantinople ordered the closure of all Latin churches in Constantinople. In 1054, the papal legate sent by Leo IX travelled to Constantinople in...
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  • (r. 379–395. An epigram on the pedestal of an obelisk at the hippodrome of Constantinople records his success in setting the obelisk upright. A Latin translation...
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    culminated in the Crusader army's 1202 siege of Zara and the 1204 sack of Constantinople, rather than the conquest of Egypt as originally planned. This led to...
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  • II was paraded through the Hippodrome of Constantinople and finally beheaded. He was succeeded by Nicetas I of Constantinople.[citation needed] "All-Holy...
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    Ibrahim Pasha Palace (category Hippodrome of Constantinople)
    Eserleri Müzesi). Initially named the Hippodrome Palace due to its location at the Hippodrome of Constantinople, it took later its name from Pargalı Ibrahim...
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    ceremony held in the Hippodrome of Constantinople which was attended by the senate, other high officials and people of Constantinople. Opinion of the senate...
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    The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (Greek: Οἰκουμενικὸν Πατριαρχεῖον Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, romanized: Oikoumenikón Patriarkhíon Konstantinoupóleos...
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    The Latin Empire, also referred to as the Latin Empire of Constantinople, was a feudal Crusader state founded by the leaders of the Fourth Crusade on lands...
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    Covered Hippodrome (Greek: σκεπαστός ἱππόδρομος) was a covered courtyard that served as an antechamber to the Great Palace of Constantinople in Istanbul...
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    Boukoleon Palace (category Great Palace of Constantinople)
    palaces in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul in Turkey.) The palace is located on the shore of the Sea of Marmara, to the south of the Hippodrome and east...
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    is a list of sieges of Constantinople, a historic city located in an area which is today part of Istanbul, Turkey. Constantinople was built on the land...
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    Nika riots (category Constantinople)
    or Nika sedition took place against Byzantine emperor Justinian I in Constantinople over the course of a week in 532 C.E. They are often regarded as the...
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    domes with diameters between 17 and 22 m ~ 22.00 Rotunda at the Hippodrome Constantinople ~ 5th c. Rotunda with ten niches ~ 22.00 Baths of Diocletian,...
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