Hippodrome of Constantinople

amphitheatre · 300 AD – 2099 AD

The Hippodrome was the great racetrack of the city of Constantinople and was connected to the no longer extant imperial palace. At about 450 m in length, the Hippodrome once accommodated about 100,000 spectators.

Coordinates

41.00656, 28.97603

Also known as

Hipodrom, Ippodromos tis Konstantinoupolis, Ιππόδρομος της Κωνσταντινούπολης

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
  © GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)

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