The great Constantinople earthquake under Bayezid II

الزلزلة الكبرى بالقسطنطينية في عهد بايزيد الثاني

Al-Salabi records great earthquakes striking Constantinople in Bayezid II's time: 1,070 houses and 109 mosques ruined, a great part of the palaces and city walls, water channels choked, the sea rising over the walls in waves, the shocks recurring daily for forty-five days — after which the sultan set 15,000 workers to rebuild what had fallen ¹.

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Era: The Gunpowder Empires
Region: Anatolia
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Al-Salabi records great earthquakes striking Constantinople in the time of Bayezid II ¹.

The damage

The quakes ruined 1,070 houses and 109 mosques, a great part of the palaces and city walls; water channels were choked, the sea rose over the walls in waves, and the shocks recurred daily for forty-five days. When they subsided the sultan set 15,000 workers to rebuild what had fallen ¹.

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Occurred at: Istanbul

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Sources

al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 174

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islam.museum contributors. “The great Constantinople earthquake under Bayezid II”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/earthquake-istanbul-bayezid/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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