Aqueduct of Valens, Istanbul, Turkey - ancient Roman aqueduct, the Valens Aqueduct in Istanbul, Turkey. Let's travel to the historic city of Istanbul in Turkey and let's visit The Valens Aqueduct which is a Roman aqueduct and which was the major water-providing system of the Eastern Roman capital of Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey).
The aqueduct was completed in 368 AD during the reign of Roman Emperor Valens, whose name it bears. The most visible bridge section that we are going to see in this video, stands in Istanbul in the quarter of Fatih, and spans the valley between the hills occupied today by the Istanbul University and the Fatih Mosque. The surviving section is 921 metres long, about 50 metres less than the original length. The Atatürk Bulvarı boulevard passes under its arches.
The aqueduct was completed by Roman Emperor Valens in the late 4th century AD, it was maintained and used by the Byzantines and later the Ottomans, and remains one of the most important landmarks of the city. The construction of a water supply system for the city (then still called Byzantium) had begun already under the Roman emperor Hadrian. Under Constantine I, when the city was rebuilt and increased in size, the system needed to be greatly expanded to meet the needs of the rapidly growing population.
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