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Sultan Ahmet Square

The Hippodrome of Constantinople was a circus that was the sporting and social centre of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire. Today it is a square in , Turkey, known as Sultanahmet Square.
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  • Type: Square
  • Description: historic square in Istanbul
  • Also known as: “Hippodrome of Constantinople” and “Konstantinopolis Hipodromu”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Hagia Sophia and Obelisk of Theodosius.

Mosque
Photo: Myrabella, Public domain.
, officially the Grand Mosque, is a mosque serving as a major cultural and historical site in , . It was formerly a church and a . is situated 400 metres northeast of Sultan Ahmet Square.

Obelisk
The is the Ancient Egyptian obelisk of Pharaoh Thutmose III, first erected during the 18th dynasty of Egypt. It was re-erected in the of Constantinople by the Roman emperor Theodosius I in the 4th century AD.

Museum
Photo: Chapultepec, Public domain.
The is a museum in in district of , which first opened in 1914 and in 1983 moved into the palace of Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, the second grand vizier of Suleiman the Magnificent.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Historical Peninsula and Mollafenari.

Photo: Sinoplu diyojen, Public domain.
The is the oldest part of . It's the location of most of its sights, with several ranked as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It's on the western, European side of the Bosphorus, with the sea to the south and the inlet of the Golden Horn to the north.

Suburb
Photo: Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 99. It is on the European side of .

Suburb
Photo: Khateeb88, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb.

Sultan Ahmet Square

Latitude
41.00652° or 41° 0′ 24″ north
Longitude
28.97605° or 28° 58′ 34″ east
Open location code
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Open­Street­Map ID
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Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Sultan Ahmet Square” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hippodroom van Konstantinopel”
  • Albanian: “Hipodromi i Kostandinopojës”
  • Arabic: “ميدان السلطان أحمد”
  • Avaric: “СултӀанахӀмет”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sultanəhməd meydanı”
  • Belarusian: “Канстанцінопальскі іпадром”
  • Bulgarian: “Хиподрум”
  • Catalan: “Hipòdrom de Constantinoble”
  • Chinese: “君士坦丁堡竞技场”
  • Chinese: “君士坦丁堡競技場”
  • Chinese: “君士坦丁堡赛马场”
  • Croatian: “Carigradski hipodrom”
  • Croatian: “Konstantinov hipodrom”
  • Czech: “Hippodrom v Konstantinopoli”
  • Dutch: “Hippodroom (Constantinopel)”
  • Dutch: “Hippodroom van Constantinopel”
  • Dutch: “Hippodroom”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميدان سباق الخيل فى القسطنطينيه”
  • Esperanto: “Hipodromo de Konstantinopolo”
  • Finnish: “Konstantinopolin hippodromi”
  • French: “At Meydanı”
  • French: “hippodrome de Constantinople”
  • French: “Hippodrome de Constantinople”
  • French: “place aux chevaux”
  • French: “Place du Sultan-Ahmet”
  • Galician: “Hipódromo de Constantinopla”
  • German: “At Meydanı”
  • German: “Hippodrom”
  • German: “Sultan-Ahmed-Platz”
  • German: “Sultanahmet Meydani”
  • Greek: “Ιππόδρομος της Κωνσταντινούπολης”
  • Hebrew: “ההיפודרום של קונסטנטינופול”
  • Hebrew: “היפודרום קונסטנטינופול”
  • Hindi: “सुल्तानहमद चौक”
  • Hungarian: “At Meydanı”
  • Hungarian: “Konstantinápolyi Hippodrom”
  • Icelandic: “Paðreimur”
  • Indonesian: “Hipodrom Konstantinopel”
  • Italian: “Ippodromo di Bisanzio”
  • Italian: “Ippodromo di Costantino”
  • Italian: “ippodromo di Costantinopoli”
  • Italian: “Ippodromo di Costantinopoli”
  • Japanese: “アト・メイダヌ”
  • Japanese: “コンスタンティノープル競馬場”
  • Japanese: “スルタンアフメト・メイダヌ”
  • Korean: “술탄아흐메트 광장”
  • Latin: “Circus Maximus”
  • Latin: “Hippodromus”
  • Latvian: “Konstantinopoles hipodroms”
  • Latvian: “Sultanahmeta”
  • Latvian: “Sultanahmetas laukums”
  • Macedonian: “Константинополски хиподром”
  • Macedonian: “Цариградски хиподром”
  • Malay: “Hipodrom Constantinople”
  • Mingrelian: “სულთანაჰმედი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “At Meydani”
  • Norwegian: “At Meydani”
  • Persian: “میدان سلطان احمد”
  • Persian: “هیپودروم قسطنطنیه”
  • Polish: “Hipodrom”
  • Portuguese: “Hipódromo de Constantinopla”
  • Portuguese: “Praça Sultão Amade”
  • Romanian: “Hipodromul din Constantinopol”
  • Romanian: “Piața Sultanahmet”
  • Russian: “Константинопольский ипподром”
  • Russian: “Площадь Ахмедие”
  • Russian: “Площадь Ипподром”
  • Russian: “Площадь Султанахмет”
  • Russian: “Султанахмет (площадь)”
  • Russian: “Султанахмет”
  • Serbian: “Hipodrom u Carigradu”
  • Serbian: “Хиподром у Константинопољу”
  • Serbian: “Хиподром у Цариграду”
  • Serbian: “Хиподром”
  • Serbian: “Цариградски хиподром”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Carigradski Hipodrom”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hipodrom u Carigradu”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hipodrom u Konstantinopolu”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Konstantinov hipodrom”
  • Slovenian: “Konstantinopelski hipodrom”
  • Slovenian: “Konstantinoplski hipodrom”
  • Spanish: “Hipodromo de Constantinopla”
  • Spanish: “Hipódromo de Constantinopla”
  • Spanish: “Plaza Sultán Ahmet”
  • Swedish: “Hippodromen i Konstantinopel”
  • Swedish: “Konstantinopolitanska hippodromen”
  • Thai: “จัตุรัสสุลต่านอาเหม็ด”
  • Turkish: “At Meydanı”
  • Turkish: “Atmeydanı”
  • Turkish: “Hipodrom Meydanı”
  • Turkish: “Hipodrom”
  • Turkish: “Hippodromos”
  • Turkish: “Konstantinopol Hipodromu”
  • Turkish: “Sultan Ahmet Meydanı”
  • Turkish: “Sultanahmet Meydanı, At Meydanı”
  • Turkish: “Sultanahmet meydanı”
  • Turkish: “Sultanahmet Meydanı”
  • Turkish: “Sultanahmet”
  • Ukrainian: “Султанахмет”
  • Urdu: “قسطنطنیہ کا گھڑ دوڑ کا میدان”
  • Vietnamese: “Trường đua Constantinopolis”
  • Western Panjabi: “سلطان احمد ویہڑہ”

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Highlights include Hagia Sophia History and Experience Museum and German Fountain.

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