Milion

The Milion was a marker from which all distances across the Roman Empire were measured. Erected by Septimius Severus in the 3rd century AD in the city of Byzantium, it became the zero-mile marker for the empire upon the re-founding of the city as Constantinople in 330 AD.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Monument
  • Description: Byzantine mile-marker monument in Constantinople
  • Also known as: “Milyon Taşı” and “The Stone of Million”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Hagia Sophia and Basilica Cistern.

Mosque
Photo: Myrabella, Public domain.
, officially the Grand Mosque, is a mosque and a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey. It was formerly a church and a . is situated 170 metres east of Milion.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , or Cisterna Basilica, is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of , . The cistern, located 150 metres southwest of the on the historical peninsula of , was built in the 6th century during the reign of Byzantine emperor Justinian I.

Square
Photo: Antoine-François Andréossy, Public domain.
The Hippodrome of Constantinople was a circus that was the sporting and social centre of Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. Today it is a square in , Turkey, known as Sultanahmet Square. is situated 240 metres southwest of Milion.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mollafenari and Beyazıt.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 99. It is on the European side of .

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Quarter
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is a quarter in district of . It is located along the northern shore of Marmara Sea. Up to recent times, is the center of the Armenian community of the city, boasting a school and several churches.

Milion

Latitude
41.00807° or 41° 0′ 29″ north
Longitude
28.97802° or 28° 58′ 41″ east
Open location code
8GHC2X5H+66
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1908677124
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­monument
Wiki­data ID
Q1187329
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Milion” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Milion”
  • Arabic: “مليون تاشي - مليون حجر”
  • Azerbaijani: “Milyon daşı”
  • Basque: “Milion”
  • Catalan: “Mílion”
  • Chinese: “米利翁”
  • Chinese: “米立安”
  • Chinese: “道路原點”
  • Chinese: “里程碑”
  • Czech: “Milion”
  • Czech: “Million”
  • Dutch: “Milion”
  • French: “Milion”
  • German: “Milion”
  • Greek: “Μίλιον”
  • Italian: “Milion”
  • Japanese: “ミリオン (道路元標)”
  • Japanese: “ミリオン”
  • Macedonian: “Милион”
  • Portuguese: “Milião”
  • Portuguese: “Milion”
  • Russian: “Милий”
  • Slovenian: “Milion v Konstantinoplu”
  • Spanish: “Milion”
  • Swedish: “Milion”
  • Turkish: “Milion”
  • Turkish: “Milyon taşı”
  • Ukrainian: “Милій”
  • Ukrainian: “Мілій”
  • Ukrainian: “Міліон”

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