Cistern of Aspar information

The Cistern of Aspar (Greek: ἡ τοῦ Ἄσπαρος κινστέρνη) or Great Cistern (Greek: μεγίστη κινστέρνη), known in Turkish as Sultan Selim Çukurbostanı ("sunken...

daughter of Triarius. Aspar's wife was an Ostrogoth, as the Ostrogoth King Theodoric the Great was her nephew. A cistern attributed to Aspar still exists today...

in Turkish) of Sultan Selim, now identified with the cistern of Aspar. The main reason for the identification is the position of the cistern within the...

Theodosius II (r. 408–50). The cistern was confused in scholarship for a long time with the cistern of Bonus or with that of Aspar: only in recent times has...

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slope of the fifth hill of Constantinople. The ground, which was bestowed by the Emperor, lay north of the Cistern of Aspar and had been used up to then...

of Aspar (Sultan Selim Çukurbostanı), and the Cistern of Aetius (Karagümrük Çukurbostanı). These cisterns were enclosed by the longer circuit of the...

earthquake. 450 Column of Marcian erected (approximate date). Church of St. Mary of Blachernae built. 459 Construction of the Cistern of Aspar begins. Augustaion...

courses of bricks and of stone, an elegant pattern similar to that also used by the similar cisterns of Aetius and of Aspar. List of Roman cisterns Müller-Wiener...

same pattern was also used to build the cisterns of Aetius, of Aspar and of Mocius inside the walled city of Costantinople. The outer western wall is...

the Cistern of Aspar, the largest of the three Roman reservoirs in Constantinople. The large courtyard (avlu) has a colonnaded portico with columns of various...

death of Marcian and the end of the Theodosian dynasty, Leo I was placed upon the throne by the Alan general Aspar, who served as commander-in-chief of the...

near the Cistern of Aspar and which became a monastery named after him, now traditionally identified with the Kefeli Mosque. The chronicles of Genesios...

reign of Emperor Theophilos (r. 829–842), built a monastery converting his house, which lay near the cistern of Aspar. Manuel was the uncle of Empress...

invasion of the Vandal Kingdom in 468, which was defeated at the Battle of Cape Bon. There were accusations at the time that Basiliscus was bribed by Aspar, the...

basis of their constitutional importance regarding the succession of an Emperor. In 457 they offered to enthrone the master of soldiers, the Alan Aspar, but...

The foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Eastern Roman Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only...

Patricius, son of the magister militum Aspar, and then Marcianus, son of the augustus Anthemius (r. 467–472). When Leo II died in the year of his grandfather's...

then southwards, passed east of the great open cisterns of Mocius and of Aspar, and ended near the Church of the Theotokos of the Rhabdos on the Propontis...

Gainas 395/400: Fravitta 433–446: Anatolius 447–451: Zeno 460s: Ardabur Aspar –469: Iordanes 469–471: Zeno 483–498: Ioannes Scytha c. 503–505: Areobindus...

after the fall of Attila, the true chief in Constantinople was the Alan general Aspar. Leo I managed to free himself from the influence of the non-Orthodox...

successor. Theodosius appointed the Alan general Ardabur and Ardabur's son Aspar to lead troops against John, while John sent a junior court officer Flavius...

408), Aetius (d. 454), Aspar (d. 471), Ricimer (d. 472), or Gundobad (d. 516), who were partly or fully of non-Roman ancestry. One of them Odoacer (d. 493)...

Roman empresses were the consorts of the Roman emperors, the rulers of the Roman Empire. The duties, power and influence of empresses varied over time depending...

sturdy and warlike Isaurians, as part of Leo's effort to counterbalance the influence of the magister militum Aspar and the large Germanic element in the...