[The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
CHAPTER XVII: Foundation Of Constantinople
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Constantine was replaced by the "great and religious" Julian, Julian, by Theodosius.
A.
D.1412, the key stone was loosened by an earthquake.
The statue fell in the reign of Alexius Comnenus, and was replaced by the cross.
The Palladium was said to be buried under the pillar.
Von Hammer, Constantinopolis und der Bosporos, i.
162 .-- M.] [Footnote 47: Tournefort (Lettre XII.) computes the Atmeidan at four hundred paces.
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