The hippodrome was an arena located in what is now known as Sultanahmet Square in modern day Istanbul. It was built by Roman Emperor Septimius Severus who conquered ancient Constantinople, known ...

The Hippodrome. Constantine the Great, the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity, took interest in charioteering. After A.D. 330, the year he re-founded Byzantium as Constantinople, he ...

The Hippodrome in Constantinople was the largest chariot racing stadium in the Eastern Roman Empire and the site of the Nika Riots. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) ...

These same elites funded the construction of massive venues for racing, such as the Circus Maximus in Rome and the Hippodrome in Constantinople. Chariot racing’s popularity only grew as the ...

The story of Constantinople is a fascinating one that dates back millennia to when this mega-city was a small Greek town ...

Engraving by Onofrio Panvinio of the hippodrome at Constantinople in 1600. CC BY 2.0 The hippodrome's track for chariot racing was the heart of the late Roman city.

On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years old but determined to see through his father’s dream of capturing the ...

EXCAVATIONS AT THE HIPPODROME, CONSTANTINOPLE.—Mr. S. Casson in Discovery for March surveys the progress which has been made in the excavation of the Hippodrome at Constantinople in the two ...

In Constantinople, the central public institution was the Hippodrome, the setting for the chariot races, where groups of faithful fans gathered under various colors. But the Hippodrome, the people’s ...

The hippodrome was an arena located in what is now known as Sultanahmet Square in modern day Istanbul. It was built by Roman Emperor Septimius Severus who conquered ancient Constantinople, known ...