Cistern of Aetius

The Cistern of Aetius (ἡ Κινστέρνη τοῦ Ἄετίου), known since the Ottoman period as Çukurbostan ("sunken garden") and since 1928 as Karagümrük stadyumu ("Karagümrük stadium") or Vefa stadyumu ("Vefa stadium"), was a Byzantine open-sky water reservoir in the city of Constantinople, important for historical reasons. Once one of the largest Byzantine cisterns, it is now a football stadium in Istanbul.LocationThe cistern is located in Istanbul, in the district of Fatih (the walled city), in the neighborhood of Karagümrük, about 300m southeast of the Gate of Edirne (the Byzantine Gate of Charisius, later known as Gate of Adrianople) of the city walls, along Fevzi Paşa Caddesi. It lies at the upper end of the valley which divides the fifth and the sixth hills of Constantinople.

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