Hieria
Hieria, also known as Heraeum or Heraion, modern Fenerbahçe, was a town of ancient Bithynia and a suburb of Byzantine-era Constantinople. It is prominent in the city's history as the site of an imperial palace.
The name derives from Heraion akron, which was given in antiquity to a small promontory on the Asian shore of the Bosporus, opposite Chalcedon. The Emperor Justinian I built a palace here, which included a harbour and a church dedicated to St. Mary. The palace, which survived at least until 1203, served as a summer residence for a number of Byzantine emperors, including Emperor Heraclius and Emperor Basil I, who added a chapel dedicated to the Prophet Elijah. Due to its location on the Asian side of the Bosporus, the palace often served as a reception point for triumphal returns of the Byzantine emperors from campaigns in the East. The iconoclastic "Council of Hieria" took place in the palace in 754. Only a few traces of the original palace complex survive.
Its site is located at Fenerbahçe in Asiatic Turkey.
