Underground Basilica Cistern (Yerebatan Sarnici) in Istanbul, Turkey

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The Basilica Cistern (Sunken Palace, or Sunken Cistern), is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), Turkey.

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