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The Egyptian Obelisk made around 1490 B.C. by the Pharaoh Tuthmosis; brought to Constantinople in IV century A.C. upon orders of the Roman Emperor. Its placed on a Roman base and together with that base it's 25,6 m high. It's the oldest monument in Istanbul! (not counting those in Archaeological Museum ;) ).
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