Kontoskalion
Sign in to saveright|250px|thumb|Map of Byzantine Constantinople. The Kontoskalion is located in the southeastern part of the city, and named Harbour of Julian/Sophia. The Kontoskalion (), also known as Harbour of Julian (, ), Portus Novus ("New Port"), or Harbour of Sophia (), and in Ottoman times as Kadırga Limanı ("Harbour of the Galleys") was a harbour in the city of Constantinople, active from the 6th century until the early Ottoman period. In the literature it has been known under several names, and the sources about it are often contradictory.
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right|250px|thumb|Map of Byzantine Constantinople. The Kontoskalion is located in the southeastern part of the city, and named Harbour of Julian/Sophia. The Kontoskalion (), also known as Harbour of Julian (, ), Portus Novus ("New Port"), or Harbour of Sophia (), and in Ottoman times as Kadırga Limanı ("Harbour of the Galleys") was a harbour in the city of Constantinople, active from the 6th century until the early Ottoman period. In the literature it has been known under several names, and the sources about it are often contradictory.
==Location== The harbour lay in an inlet – still recognizable today in the flat landscape profile – of the Marmara Sea, in the third region of the city, at the southwest end of the valley of the Hippodrome. The area of the harbour complex covers part of today's Mahalleler of Kadırga Limanı and Kumkapi in the Fatih district (the walled city) of Istanbul. The “Galley Harbour street” or Kadirga Limani Caddesi in Istanbul still delineates the north shore of the old harbour.