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Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake, which cracks the dome of Hagia Sophia.
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Constantinople
Capital of the Eastern Roman and Ottoman empires
Constantinople was a historical city located on the Bosporus that served as the capital of the Roman, Byzantine, Latin and Ottoman empires between its consecration in 330 and 1930, when it was renamed Istanbul. Initially as New Rome, Constantinople was founded in 324 during the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
557 Constantinople earthquake
Magnitude 6.4 M (Extreme) earthquake
The 557 Constantinople earthquake took place on the night of December 14. This earthquake, described in the works of Agathias, John Malalas, and Theophanes the Confessor, caused great damage to Constantinople, then capital of the Byzantine Empire, in a region frequently…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Hagia Sophia
Mosque and former church in Istanbul, Turkey
Hagia Sophia, officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, is a mosque and former museum and church serving as a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey. The last of three church buildings to be successively erected on the site by the Eastern Roman Empire, it was…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
December 14
Day of the year
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