List of columns and towers in Istanbul
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Columns
- Aviation Martyrs' MonumentAviation Martyrs' MonumentThe Aviation Martyrs' Monument , located in Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey, is a memorial dedicated to the first soldiers of the Ottoman aviation squadrons to be killed in flight accidents...
(Hava Şehitleri Anıtı) - Column of ConstantineColumn of ConstantineThe Column of Constantine is a Roman monumental column constructed on the orders of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great in 330 AD. It commemorates the declaration of Byzantium as the new capital city of the Roman Empire...
(Çemberlitaş) - Monument of LibertyMonument of Liberty, IstanbulThe Monument of Liberty , located in the neighborhood of Çağlayan in Şişli district of Istanbul, Turkey, is a memorial in honor of soldiers killed during the Radical Islamic attacks against the Ottoman Empire's House of Parliament....
(Hürriyet Anıtı) - Obelisk of TheodosiusObelisk of TheodosiusThe Obelisk of Theodosius is the Ancient Egyptian obelisk of Pharaoh Tutmoses III re-erected in the Hippodrome of Constantinople by the Roman emperor Theodosius I in the 4th century AD.-History:The obelisk was first set up by Tutmoses III to the south of the seventh pylon...
(Dikilitaş) - Goths Column (Gotlar Sütunu)
- Column of MarcianColumn of MarcianThe Column of Marcian is a Roman honorific column erected in Constantinople in 455 dedicated to the Emperor Marcian. It is made of red-grey Egyptian granite, in two pieces. The basis is quadrilateral, formed by four slabs in white marble, decorated with Chi-Rhos inside medallions on three faces,...
(Kıztaşı) - Column of Constantine V Porphyrogenetus (Örme Sütun)
- Serpent ColumnSerpent ColumnThe Serpent Column — also known as the Serpentine Column, Delphi Tripod or Plataean Tripod — is an ancient bronze column at the Hippodrome of Constantinople in what is now Istanbul, Turkey...
(Yılanlı Sütun)
Towers
- Beyazit TowerBeyazit TowerBeyazıt Tower, also named Seraskier Tower, from the name of the Ottoman ministry of War, is an 85 metre tall fire-watch tower located in the courtyard of Istanbul University's main campus on Beyazıt Square in Istanbul, Turkey, on top of one of the "seven hills" which Constantine the Great had built...
- Çamlıca TV Tower
- Dolmabahçe Clock TowerDolmabahçe Clock TowerDolmabahçe Clock Tower is a clock tower situated outside Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul, Turkey. The tower was ordered by Ottoman sultan Abdülhamid II and designed by the court architect Sarkis Balyan between 1890 and 1895....
- Endem TV TowerEndem TV TowerEndem TV Tower is a 236 metre high TV Tower in Istanbul. It was built between 1998 and 2002 and has a revolving restaurant 154 metres above ground, as well as an observation deck at 160 metres.-External links:* http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=131417...
- Etfal Hospital Clock TowerEtfal Hospital Clock TowerEtfal Hospital Clock Tower, or Children’s Hospital Clock Tower , is a clock tower situated in the garden of the Hamidiye Etfal Hospital in the Şişli district of İstanbul, Turkey at the European side of Bosphorus...
- Galata TowerGalata TowerThe Galata Tower — called Christea Turris by the Genoese — is a medieval stone tower in the Galata district of Istanbul, Turkey, just to the north of the Golden Horn...
- Kız Kulesi
- Nusretiye Clock TowerNusretiye Clock TowerNusretiye Clock Tower, aka Tophane Clock Tower, is a clock tower situated in Tophane, a neighborhood in Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey next to Nusretiye Mosque and Tophane Kiosk at the European waterfront of Bosphorus...
- Yıldız Clock TowerYildiz Clock TowerYıldız Clock Tower , is a clock tower situated next to the courtyard of the Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque, in Yıldız neighborhood of Beşiktaş district in Istanbul, Turkey at the European side of Bosphorus.-History:...