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(a) The Exokionion (τὸ ἐξωκιόνιον)^[48] was a district immediately outside the Constantinian Wall, and obtained its name from a column in the district, bearing the statue of the founder of the city. Owing to a corruption of the name, the quarter was commonly known as the Hexakionion (τὸ ἑξακιόνιον).^[49] It is celebrated in ecclesiastical history as the extra-mural suburb in which the Arians were allowed to hold their religious services, when Theodosius the Great, the champion of orthodoxy, prohibited heretical worship within the city.^[50] Hence the terms Arians and Exokionitai became synonymous.^[51] In later times the quarter was one of the fashionable parts of the city, containing many fine churches and handsome residences.^[52]

Gyllius was disposed to place the Exokionion on the Fifth Hill,^[53] basing his opinion on the fact that he found, when he first visited the city, a noble column standing on that hill, about half a mile to the north-west of the Mosque of Sultan Mehemet.^[54]

Dr. Mordtmann, on the other hand, maintains that the designation was applied to the extra-mural territory along the whole line of the Constantinian land fortifications.^[55]