The Basilica Cistern, or Cisterna Basilica (Greek: βασιλική κινστέρνή, Turkish: Yerebatan Sarnıcı or Yerebatan Saray, "Subterranean Cistern" or "Subterranean Palace"), is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul, Turkey.The cistern, located 150 metres (490 ft) southwest of the Hagia Sophia on the historical peninsula of Sarayburnu ...

La Cisterna Basílica (en turco, Yerebatan Sarayı, lit.'Palacio Sumergido', o Yerebatan Sarnıcı, 'Cisterna Sumergida') es la más grande de las 60 antiguas cisternas construidas bajo la ciudad de Estambul (antiguamente Bizancio y Constantinopla) en Turquía durante la época bizantina.Se encuentra a cien metros al sudoeste de la iglesia de Santa Sofía, en la histórica península de ...

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is a church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. According to traditions dating back to the 4th century, it contains the two holiest sites in Christianity: the site where Jesus was crucified, at a place known as Calvary or Golgotha, and Jesus's empty tomb, which is where he was buried and resurrected. Each time the church was …

地下宮殿（ちかきゅうでん）の通称で知られるバシリカ・シスタン (Basilica Cistern) は、トルコ共和国のイスタンブールにある東ローマ帝国の大貯水槽。 トルコ語では「地下宮殿」を意味するイェレバタン・サラユ (Yerebatan Sarayı) 、あるいは「地下貯水池」を意味するイェレバタン・サルヌジュ ...

The Baths of Trajan (Italian: Terme di Traiano) were a massive thermae, a bathing and leisure complex, built in ancient Rome starting from 104 AD and dedicated during the kalendae of July in 109. Commissioned by Emperor Trajan, the complex of baths occupied space on the southern side of the Oppian Hill on the outskirts of what was then the main developed area of the city, …

Basilica Cistern rebuilt and enlarged. 533 – Earthquake. 536 – Church of the Saints Sergius and Bacchus finished. 537 26 December: Hagia Sophia completed. Population: 300,000–500,000; 541 – Plague of Justinian kills 40% of the population. 543 – Column of Justinian erected. 545 – Wheat and wine shortage. 548 – Hagia Irene rebuilt.

Location. The remains of the monument are located in Istanbul, in the district of Eminönü, in the neighborhood of Cağaloğlu, at the northern corner of the square of Hagia Sophia, and close to the Basilica Cistern.. History and description. When Emperor Constantine I the Great rebuilt the city of Byzantium to make it his new imperial capital, which he named Nova Roma ("New Rome"), …

History. The Palace of Blachernae was constructed on the northern slopes of the Sixth Hill of the city in circa 500. The hill itself was partially remodelled, particularly in later times, and a number of terraces created to support the various buildings comprising the palace complex. Although the main imperial residence during the 4th–11th centuries was the Great Palace at the eastern end …

The Cistern of Philoxenos (Greek: Κινστέρνα Φιλοξένου), or Binbirdirek Cistern, is a man-made subterranean reservoir in Istanbul, situated between the Forum of Constantine and the Hippodrome of Constantinople in the Sultanahmet district. It has been restored and is now visited as a tourist attraction. The entrance is located at İmran Öktem Sokak 4.

Ahmed Bican, from Gallipoli, gave a short description of the Column in his Dürr-i Meknûn, written around the time of the Fall of Constantinople.He states that it is a hollow bronze of intertwined snakes, threeheaded, a talisman for the citizens against snake bites.. Between fifty and one hundred years after the Turkish conquest of Constantinople, the jaw of one of the three serpent …