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Istanbul - Marmara Sea Walls:
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The Palace of Boukoleon (literally “bull lion”) was on the shore of the Propontis (the Sea of Marmara), south of the Great Palace and the Hippodrome. The first building phase of the palace complex is attributed to the emperor Theodosius II (408-450). Emperor Theophilos (829-842) rebuilt and expanded the palace.

The Palace of Boukoleon, which overlooked the Propontis, had its own harbor (the limen of Boukoleon) with a flight of marble steps leading down to the emperor’s ship. It took its name from an ancient statue located at the harbor depicting colossal figures of a lion attacking a bull.

The palace served as the most important palace in the Empire for a long time. This changed with the pillaging of the city during the Fourth Crusade in 1204. Boniface I of Montferrat took the palace. However, the palace fell into disuse after the reconquest of the city in 1261 by Michael VIII Palaiologos. When the Ottomans conquered the city two centuries later, it was already largely ruined.

The ruins of the palace were partially destroyed in 1873 to make way for the railway line to Sirkeci. In 2018, it was announced by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality that the palace would be restored. It is planned that the palace will become an open-air museum with "a timber walking trail for visitors, a museum, and a pool.

The Sea Wall on the Propontis (Marmara), which once had 36 gates and 103 towers, was about 8.5 kilometers long and ran from the Marble Tower to the Gate of St. Barbara (no longer existing, around Sarayburnu). After the completion of the land wall, the prefect Cyrus Panopolites built sea walls along the Marmara in 439.

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