| Column of Constantine |
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Located in Sultanahmed Square, the Column of Constantine was
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| German Fountain |
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The German Fountain (in Turkish Alman Çesmesi) is a gazebo styled fountain in the northern end of old hippodrome and across from the Mausoleum of Sultan Ahmed I. It was constructed to commemorate the second anniversary of German Emperor Wilhelm II's visit to Istanbul in 1898. It was built in Germany, then transported piece by piece and assembled in its current site in 1900
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| Hippodrome of Constantinople |
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The Hippodrome of Constantinople (Sultanahmet Meydani) was a horse-racing track that was the sporting and social centre of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire and the largest city in Europe. Today it is a square named Sultanahmet Meydani (Sultanahmet Square) , with only a few fragments of the original structure surviving. It is sometimes also called Atmeydani (Horse Square) in Turkish.
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| Obelisque (Egyptian Column) |
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In 390, Emperor Theodosius the Great, brought the obelisk from Egypt and erected it inside the racing track in The Hippodrome. Carved from pink granite, it was originally erected at the Temple of Karnak in Luxor during the reign of Tuthmosis III in about 1490 BC. Theodosius had the obelisk cut into three pieces and brought to Constantinople. Only the top section survives, and it stands today where Theodosius placed it, on a marble pedestal. The obelisk has survived nearly 3,500 years in astonishingly good condition.
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| Serpent Column (Yilanli Sutun) |
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The Serpentine Column has one of the longest literary histories of any object surviving from Greek and Roman antiquity. It was the offering, or trophy, less its original gold tripod, which was dedicated to Apollo at Delphi, after the defeat of the Persian army at Plataea in August, 479BC by those Greek City States, who were in alliance against the Persian invasion of mainland Greece, in the spring of 480BC.
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