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Great Palace of Constantinople: Then and Now

Residence of the Byzantine emperors from 330 to the 11th century, spread over terraces between the Hippodrome and the sea. Little survives above ground; the Blue Mosque stands on part of the site.

As it was
Great Palace of Constantinople, as it was
Plan of Byzantine Constantinople's imperial district with the Great Palace. Cplakidas, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The site today
Great Palace of Constantinople, the site today
Pedro Szekely from Los Angeles, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Key facts

Country todayTurkey
StatusLost
DateAD 330
Nearest city on the mapİznik (about 90 km)
Location41.005° N, 28.977° E
Map showing Great Palace of Constantinople in AD 300Great Palace of Constantinople
Border map for AD 300. See Europe in AD 300.

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Who ruled this place

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–324 BCAchaemenid Empire
323 BC–301 BCCappadocia
300 BC–201 BCBithynia
200 BC–2 BCminor states
1 BC–299Roman Empire
300–399Rome (Diocletianus)
400–799Eastern Roman Empire
800–1399Byzantine Empire
1400–1919Ottoman Empire
1920–1929Unclaimed / no data
1930–1937Republic of Turkey
1938–todayTurkey

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