Estanbul 2010 » Million Stone http://www.estanbul2010.com European Capital of Culture Tue, 11 May 2010 17:04:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 The Million Stone http://www.estanbul2010.com/the-million-stone/ http://www.estanbul2010.com/the-million-stone/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:31:44 +0000 niyazi http://www.estanbul2010.com/?p=58 stone-223x300

Photo by Niyazi Uğur Genca

Its purpose was the same as the Milion Stone of Rome in Italy. It marked the very point where distances of the major cities of the empire from Constantinople was calculated by and it’s base featured inscriptions showing some of those distances.

At the time of Byzantine empire, the city was referred as The New Rome, and  the saying “every road leads to Rome” meant Constantinope in the Eastern Roman Empire and too the Milion Stone in the Hippodrome.

Today, remains of the Milion Stone is located near the water tower in Sultanahmet (towards the Basilica Cistern).

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