Kantakuzin is the treasure of the Eveeshev Gate on (Razebvnyasya, ^°) yusk, or the tower of the pier. Tom metB, gdv now Sarai-Burun (corner of the Seraglio). It is unknown which Eugene gave them his NAME, THAT-LI, who rebelled against the Great One and was defeated by him? or the one who, among the twelve Senators who accompanied Constantine, moved with him from Rome to the new capital Impersch? These gates are already gone. Behind them would be the so-called Neorgl (Flotsuya Gate). Now the Greeks have retained the distorted name Oral for them, and the Turks call them Tshnfut-Kapu (Jew's Gate), because many Jews settled here, not far from the current customs. It was here that the flower was attached, blocking the entrance to the harbor of Constantinople. At the other end it reached Galata () and was supported in some places by piles packed into the pier. The land writer Meletius () believes that Neorlienya gate is the same, which is called nim BalukBazar (gate of the fish market) and leads to Bezgm = steins (bazaars).
(°) Duca, Chapter. 58. (°°) Country. 425. The fourth gate is Iorta-ton Karavgon, or the gate of the Courts, and the Turks have Jemi-Iskez (the gate of Fruits) and Zindan-Kapusi.
The fifth were L/uenye, Kagtata: they are now mortgaged; but the Turks preserved their ancient name for them and call them Un-kapanev-Kapusv (laid down the flour gate).
Sixth Gate Stekolshchikov, Jubali-Kapusi.
I haven't found the seventh ones. They are probably hidden in some private domf.
The eighth gates, both in ancient times and today, are known under the name 4th-Kapusi, Holy Gate. Here the pilgrims got into boats on the other side of the pier, to the Church of Saints Eodosli.
The ninth ones are called Petri-Kapusi Turks. They were in that part of the city that Franzes () designates by the name of Vesto Ren, and where, during Mohammed’s last siege of the city, Notaras fought so bravely.
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) Nviga 5 Chapter, 9. The Eleventh had Ilnperatorsyuya, VasilikePude. This is most likely what the Turks now call Balat: a corruption of the name Palalum, or Palatine.
The twelfth gate was called Kineggon, or amphitheater. The Turks call them Gaivan-GisariKapu, that is, the gate of the castle of wild animals.
The walls of the city, along the shores of the Marmora Sea and along the pier, were often repaired by the Turks: this is remarkable, because at every step you can see embedded in them are the fragments of colonies, inscriptions, precious marble, interspersed with clay and with the simplest stones.
It is known from Istorsh that the Emperor Justiman built two churches, opposite both ends of the city stfi, and one in the name of the Most Holy Theotokos, one against Blachernae, and the other against the Golden Gate. These two temples, according to Prokoshl, were placed in front of the city walls, and were supposed to serve as their protection, () or, better said, the city and °) Prokoshy, 4e Asbeyz, Kn, 4. Ha. 5.
45% of its nets were entrusted to the patronage of the Mother of God. Blachernae has been razed to the ground: the remains of the Foundation and a small, almost completely littered chapel in which the icon of Our Lady of Blachernae is placed are still visible. I found an old priest there and held a prayer service. Another church, which was against the Golden Gate, burned down; however, with the permission of the now reigning Sultan Mahmud, it was completely resumed. They say he even gave out a significant amount for its reconstruction. Walking from the Hadrianopolis gate to the Golden Gate, I saw, about one and a half hundred yards from the city walls, on the right hand, under the Zhidovsky cemetery, a small church surrounded by cypresses and poplars. They told me that this very Church of the Mother of God in Balukla is at the Life-Giving Spring, in which seven living fish are miraculously preserved, from the time of the Turks’ siege of Constantinople. I turned my horse there, and, riding up to the fence, went down to pray to the Mother of our Lord.