Which one, Boğaziçi University or Basilica Cistern, was built in the 6th century during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I?
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Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi University (also known as Bosphorus University, Turkish: "Boğaziçi Üniversitesi" , "Boğaziçi" literally meaning Bosphorus in Turkish) is a major research university located on the European side of the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey. It has four faculties and two schools offering undergraduate degrees, and six institutes offering graduate degrees. The language of instruction is English.
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Basilica Cistern The Basilica Cistern (Turkish: "Yerebatan Sarnıcı – "Cistern Sinking Into Ground"" ), is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), Turkey. The cistern, located 500 ft southwest of the Hagia Sophia on the historical peninsula of Sarayburnu, was built in the 6th century during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I.
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San Bartolomeo all'Isola The Basilica of St. Bartholomew on the Island (Italian: "Basilica di San Bartolomeo all'Isola" , Latin: "Basilica S. Bartholomaei in Insula" ) is a titular minor basilica, located in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 998 by Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor and contains relics of St. Bartholomew the Apostle. It is located on Tiber Island, on the site of the former temple of Aesculapius, which had cleansed the island of its former ill-repute among the Romans and established its reputation as a hospital, continued under Christian auspices today.
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Sangarius Bridge The Sangarius Bridge or Bridge of Justinian (Turkish: "Justinianos Köprüsü" or "Beşköprü") is a late Roman bridge over the river Sakarya (Latin: "Sangarius" , Greek Σαγγάριος) in Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey. It was built by the East Roman Emperor Justinian I (527-565 AD) to improve communications between the capital Constantinople and the eastern provinces of his empire. With a remarkable length of 430 m, the bridge was mentioned by several contemporary writers, and has been associated with a supposed project, first proposed by Pliny the Younger to Emperor Trajan, to construct a navigable canal that would bypass the Bosporus.
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Justin of Chieti Saint Justin of Chieti (Italian: "San Giustino di Chieti" ) is venerated as an early bishop of Chieti, Italy. His date of death varies, and is sometimes given as the 3rd, 4th, or 6th centuries.
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Cistern of Philoxenos The Cistern of Philoxenos (Greek: Κινστέρνα Φιλοξένου ), or Binbirdirek Cistern, is a man-made subterranean reservoir in Istanbul, situated between the Forum of Constantine and the Hippodrome of Constantinople in the Sultanahmet district. It has been restored and is now visited as a tourist attraction. The entrance is located at İmran Öktem Sokak 4.
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Church of St. Polyeuctus The Church of St. Polyeuctus (Greek: , "Hagios Polyeuktos") was an ancient Byzantine church in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) built by the noblewoman Anicia Juliana and dedicated to Saint Polyeuctus. Intended as an assertion of Juliana's own imperial lineage, it was a lavishly decorated building, and the largest church of the city before the construction of the Hagia Sophia. It introduced the large-scale use of Sassanid Persian decorative elements, and may have inaugurated the new architectural type of domed basilica, perfected in the later Hagia Sophia.
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Bardas Bardas (Greek: Βάρδας ; died 21 April 866) was a Byzantine noble and high-ranking minister. As the brother of Empress Theodora, he rose to high office under Theophilos (r. 829–842). Although sidelined after Theophilos's death by Theodora and Theoktistos, in 855 he engineered Theoktistos's murder and became the "de facto" regent for his nephew, Michael III (r. 842–867). Rising to the rank of "Caesar", he was the effective ruler of the Byzantine Empire for ten years, a period which saw military success, renewed diplomatic and missionary activity, and an intellectual revival that heralded the Macedonian Renaissance. He was assassinated in 866 at the instigation of Michael III's new favourite, Basil the Macedonian, who a year later would usurp the throne for himself and install his own dynasty on the Byzantine throne.
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Theodora (6th century) Theodora (Greek: Θεοδώρα; c. 500 – 28 June 548) was empress of the Byzantine Empire by marriage to Emperor Justinian I. She was one of the most influential and powerful of the Byzantine empresses. Some sources mention her as empress regnant with Justinian I as her co-regent. Along with her spouse, she is a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, commemorated on November 14.
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Domnicus Flavius Domnicus was a Byzantine military officer and patrikios, active in the reign of Emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565). He should not be confused with his contemporary Domnicus, Praetorian prefect of Illyricum (term 535–540).
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Justin (Moesia) Justin (Latin: "Iustinus" ; Greek: ; died 528) was a general of the Byzantine Empire, active early in the reign of Emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565) as commander of the Danubian "limes" in Moesia Secunda.
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New Church of the Theotokos The New Church of the Theotokos was a Byzantine church erected by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565) in Jerusalem.
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Gantiadi church Gantiadi church (Georgian: განთიადის ეკლესია , "Gant'iadis eklesia") is a 6th-century three-apse basilica, located in settlement of Gantiadi (Gagra district). It was built in 543 AD and altered several times in 8-10th centuries. In 1576 it was partly destroyed by Ottoman invaders. It is one of the oldest Christian temples in Georgia. Nowadays only the ruins of the basilica are left standing.
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Justin (general under Justinian I) Justin (Latin: "Justinus" , ) was a 6th-century East Roman (Byzantine) general, who was active in the Gothic War in Italy under Justinian I (r. 527–565).
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Old Darülfünun building Old Darülfünun building (Turkish: "Eski Darülfünun Binası" ) was a university building constructed next to Haghia Sophia in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire in the mid 19th century.
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Phrontisterion of Trapezous The Phrontisterion of Trapezous (Greek: Φροντιστήριο Τραπεζούντος , "Trapezous College") was a Greek educational institution that operated from 1682/3 to 1921 in Trabzon (Gr. Τραπεζούς, "Trapezous"), in the Ottoman Empire, now Turkey. It provided a major impetus for the rapid expansion of Greek education throughout the Pontus region, on the south coast of the Black Sea. The building still retains its function as a prestigious highschool, and it has been considered as the most impressive Pontic Greek monument in Trabzon.
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Godilas Godilas (Greek: ) was a Byzantine general, active in the reigns of Emperor Justin I (r. 518–527) and Emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565).
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Pontifical University of St. Bonaventure The Pontifical University of St. Bonaventure or Pontifical Theological Faculty of Saint Bonaventure (Italian: "Pontificia facoltà teologica San Bonaventura" , Latin: "Pontificia Facultas Theologica S. Bonaventurae" ), commonly called the Seraphicum, is the international study center of the Friars Minor Conventual in Rome. As a Pontifical faculty, the Seraphicum is governed by the Holy See according to the Apostolic Constitution "Sapientia christiana.
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University of Basilicata The University of Basilicata (Italian: "Università degli Studi della Basilicata" ) is an Italian public research university located in Potenza, Italy and Matera. It was founded in 1982 and is organized in 6 Schools.
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Palace of the Porphyrogenitus The Palace of the Porphyrogenitus (Greek: ), known in Turkish as the Tekfur Sarayı ("Palace of the Sovereign"), is a late 13th-century Byzantine palace in the north-western part of the old city of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul, Turkey). An annex of the greater palace complex of Blachernae, it is the best preserved of the three Byzantine palaces to survive in the city (together with the ruins of the Boukoleon Palace; and the ruins of the Great Palace of Constantinople with its surviving substructures, retrieved mosaics and standing Magnaura section), and one of the few relatively intact examples of late Byzantine secular architecture in the world.
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Cyril VI of Constantinople Cyril VI (Greek: Κύριλλος ΣΤ΄ ), lay name Konstantinos Serpetzoglou (Κωνσταντίνος Σερπεντζόγλου) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople between the years 1813 and 1818.
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Boğaziçi (Istanbul) Boğaziçi is the general term, specific to İstanbul and overlapping administrative divisions, used to denote those parts of the city with view of the Bosphorus. The respective nuances of the two terms (the strait itself and the urban area of Boğaziçi) being somewhat similar to those between San Francisco Bay and the Bay Area, they are not used interchangeably in correct parlance.