Hidden Ruins of Byzantine Constantinople

Summary by Krater

This video explores the surviving ruins, monuments, columns, and palaces of Byzantine Constantinople, tracing their history from antiquity to the Ottoman conquest and their modern remnants.

From the video

Answers: What ruins of Byzantine Constantinople still exist today?

• Byzantine Constantinople ruins
• Topkapi Palace
• Column of Marcian
• Forum of Theodosius
• Column of Constantine
• Column of the Goths

What it concludes

• Despite centuries of destruction, fires, and modern urban growth, notable traces of medieval and ancient Constantinople still survive.
• Most Byzantine Constantinople churches were converted into mosques within a century of the Ottoman conquest.