40 Facts About the Glorious Rise and Brutal Fall of Constantinople

40 Facts About the Glorious Rise and Brutal Fall of Constantinople

Trista - July 11, 2019

40 Facts About the Glorious Rise and Brutal Fall of Constantinople
A diagram depicting the Golden Gate. Wikimedia.

29. A Grand Golden Gate

Constantinople was a rather fanciful city, with a golden gate that could only be used for either the return of triumphant emperors or to honor exceptional guests to the town like Popes. For everyone else, simple gates into the city had to suffice. One illustrious guest given use of the golden gate was Pope Constantine, named after the emperor Constantine himself. Fitting!

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