Limen to Kaisareiou
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 01, 2025 11:19 PM
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History
A harbor constructed in Constantinople during the reign of Theodosius I; thirty-seven Byzantine-era shipwrecks have been excavated from the harbor site.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/380702853
41.0048557797, 28.9491426965
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Yenikapı site (AD 300 - AD 1453) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Langa Bostanı (Turkish, AD 1300 - AD 1923)
- Λιμην του Καισαρειου (Limen to Kaisareiou: Ancient Greek, AD 650 - AD 850)
- Portus Theodosiacus (Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Vlanga (Ancient, in Latin characters Greek, AD 1200 - AD 1450)
- Yenikapı (Turkish, modern)
- Limen to Kaisareiou part of (administrative) Constantinopolis (AD 300 - AD 1453)
- Limen to Kaisareiou located on Propontis (AD 300 - AD 1453)
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The Byzantine port was discovered in 2004.
Gabriel Mckee, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Limen to Kaisareiou: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/380702853> [accessed: 08 March 2025]
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