Walls of Blachernai

The walls of Constantinople are a series of defensive stone walls that have surrounded and protected the city of Constantinople since its founding as the new capital of the Roman Empire by Constantine the Great.
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  • Type: City walls
  • Description: city walls of Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey)
  • Also known as: “Theodosian walls” and “Walls of Constantinople”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Golden Horn and Prison of Anemas.

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The is the district of surrounding the banks of the body of water of the same name, which is a bay of the Bosphorus along its western, European coast.

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The is a large Byzantine building attached to the walls of the city of Constantinople. It is traditionally identified with the prisons named after Michael Anemas, a Byzantine general who rose in unsuccessful revolt against Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and was the first person to be imprisoned there. is situated 180 metres north of Walls of Blachernai.

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The Church of Saint Mary of Blachernae is an Eastern Orthodox church in Mustafa Paşa Bostanı Sokak in Ayvansaray in the district of , just inside the old walled city. is situated 250 metres northeast of Walls of Blachernai.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fener and Hasköy.

Quarter
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, also spelled Phanar, is a quarter midway up the in the district of in , . The Turkish name is derived from the Greek word "phanarion", meaning lantern, streetlight or lamppost; the neighborhood was so called because of a column topped with a lantern which stood here in the Byzantine period and was used as a street light or lighthouse.

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is a trading and residential district on the northern bank of the in , , . It includes the neighbourhoods of Keçeci Piri, Piri Paşa, and Halıcıoğlu, and parts of Camiikebir and Sütlüce.

Town
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or Eyüp is a municipality and district of . Its area is 228 km2, and its population is 422,913. The district extends from the all the way to the shore of the .

Walls of Blachernai

Latitude
41.03681° or 41° 2′ 13″ north
Longitude
28.94079° or 28° 56′ 27″ east
Inception
12th century
Open location code
8GHC2WPR+P8
Open­Street­Map ID
way 32394781
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­citywalls
Wiki­data ID
Q89917
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Walls of Blachernai” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mure van Konstantinopel”
  • Arabic: “أسوار القسطنطينية”
  • Armenian: “Կոստանդնուպոլսի պարիսպներ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Konstantinopol divarları”
  • Basque: “Konstantinoplako harresiak”
  • Bulgarian: “Константинополски стени”
  • Bulgarian: “Стени на Константинопол”
  • Catalan: “muralles de Constantinoble”
  • Catalan: “Muralles de Constantinoble”
  • Chechen: “Феодосийн пенаш”
  • Chinese: “君士坦丁堡城牆”
  • Croatian: “Teodozijeve zidine”
  • Czech: “Konstantinopolské hradby”
  • Dutch: “Muren van Constantinopel”
  • French: “murailles de Constantinople”
  • French: “Murailles de Constantinople”
  • Georgian: “კონსტანტინოპოლის კედლები”
  • German: “Blachernenmauer”
  • German: “Theodosianische Mauer”
  • Greek: “Θεοδοσιανά Τείχη”
  • Greek: “Τείχη της Κωνσταντινούπολης”
  • Hebrew: “חומות קונסטנטינופול”
  • Hungarian: “Konstantinápoly falai”
  • Indonesian: “Tembok Konstantinopel”
  • Italian: “Mura di Costantinopoli”
  • Japanese: “コンスタンティノープルの城壁”
  • Japanese: “テオドシウスの城壁”
  • Korean: “테오도시우스 성벽”
  • Macedonian: “Цариградски ѕидини”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “De theodosianske murer”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Konstantinopels murer”
  • Norwegian: “De theodosianske murer”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Muralhas de Constantinòple”
  • Persian: “دیوارهای قسطنطنیه”
  • Polish: “Mury Konstantynopola”
  • Polish: “Walls of Constantinople”
  • Portuguese: “Muralhas de Constantinopla”
  • Romanian: “zidurile Constantinopolului”
  • Romanian: “Zidurile Constantinopolului”
  • Russian: “Стены Константинополя”
  • Serbian: “Цариградски бедеми”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Carigradski bedemi”
  • Slovenian: “Konstantinopelsko obzidje”
  • Spanish: “Murallas de Constantinopla”
  • Spanish: “murallas de Teodosio”
  • Swedish: “Konstantinopels murar”
  • Turkish: “İstanbul Surları”
  • Turkish: “Konstantinopolis Surları”
  • Turkish: “Theodosius Surları”
  • Ukrainian: “Стіни Константинополя”
  • Urdu: “قسطنطنیہ کی دیواریں”
  • Vietnamese: “Các tường thành Constantinople”
  • Western Panjabi: “قسطنطنیہ دیاں دیواراں”
  • Wu Chinese: “君士坦丁堡城墙”

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