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english name	Palace of Hieria Cistern (Fenerbahçe)
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events	Restoration 886 - 887
event persons	Basil I - Restorer (867-886)
purposes	Display, Storage
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description	The Palace of Hiereia was located at Fenerbahçe, the Asian side of the Bosporus. It also contained a cistern. The Palace of Hiereia was a summer residence for the emperors, built by Justinian I (r. 527-565): Procop. Buildings, 1.3.10 and 1.11.16-22. Heraclius (r. 610-641) also resided here. Furthermore, the Iconoclast council of Constantine V (r. 741-775) was held in Hiereia. The Palace is documented until 1203, and today's archaeological remains are meagre. Basil I cleaned the cistern and stored water there. The exact date of construction for the cistern is not clear. This Palace was probably connected to a different Waterway systen than either Hadrian or Valens.
comments	See The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium 'Hieria' (p. 928). EDITORS: check this https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1ioZdzYoEZjOzPqOF2U7afaORa-2XW00A&ll=40.97121477205585%2C29.040622836746696&z=19 Cistern concordance (Crow et al., 2008, p. 144): Janin 1964: 206 no. 6.
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Literature of related events

#	Event	Code	Type	Page	Excerpt
1	Restoration: 886	Theophanus Continuatus 961	Primary source	237	(Bekker 338) And in the palace of Hiereia, he (Basil I) built a sacred oratory of the same prophet Elijah, which as regards beauty and prettiness is judged second to no other. When he stayed there on his imperial circuit he also saw a great and spacious cistern (dexamene hydatos), which was a work of the emperor who had first adorned this place, but which was filled with earth by the emperor Heraclius and which had been planted with trees and vegetables, just like those inside the imperial palace, the one in front of the Magnaura and the one between the banqueting hall of Justinian and that of the Ekthesis, which also had had water in abundance and fish that were bred in order to delight the emperors and in order to be caught by them but which had been turned into dry land by the same emperor and which had served for the creation of gardens because the mathematician Stephen who established the horoscope of the aforementioned emperor had said that he would die through water. For this reason then the cistern in Hiereia was turned into a garden. When the famous emperor Basil saw that the palace had sufficient and adequate space for planting gardens but was somewhat lacking in water that was drinkable and clean he dug out the earth again through the employment of many hands and with zeal and he returned to its original shape the meadow that shortly before had been full of plants and instead of a garden he made it a receptacle of abundant and sufficient water.