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The Xi'an City Wall is on the tentative list of UNESCO's World Heritage Site under the title "City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties". Since 2008, it is also on the list of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of the People's Republic of China. Since March 1961, the Xi'an City Wall is a heritage National Historical and Cultural Unit.
the Valerian Wall, built in c. 260 AD, partly along the lines of older walls, partly as a new fortification, to protect the city against barbarian attacks; the Herulian (or Post-Herulian) [2] Wall, a much smaller circuit built in c. 280 AD, enclosing the centre of the ancient city following its sack by the Heruli in 267 AD; the Rizokastro ...
The wall survived during much of the Byzantine period, even though it was replaced by the Theodosian Walls as the city's primary defense. An ambiguous passage refers to extensive damage to the city's "inner wall" from an earthquake on 25 September 478, which likely refers to the Constantinian wall.
Coordinates: Type: City wall: Height: up to 20 m (66 ft) Site information; Condition: Partially intact: Site history; Built: 7th century BC (Hellenistic walls) 6th–10th centuries (Byzantine walls) 1336–c.1356 (first Venetian walls) 1536–1620 (second Venetian walls) Built by
A map of the walled old city of Nicosia. 10 of the 11 bastions are marked by icons View of part of the Venetian Walls and the nearby gardens. The Venetian walls of Nicosia have a circular shape, with a circumference of c. 5 km (3 miles). The walls contain eleven pentagonal bastions with rounded orillons, similar to the bastions of Palmanova ...
Archaeologists recently unearthed an ancient wall that once surrounded a bustling city in the heartlands of China. Large sections of the wall — made from compacted earth — were excavated from ...
The ancient city of Troy was famous for its defensive walls. There is archaeological evidence that Troy VII , generally identified as the stage of the legendary Trojan War of Homer 's Iliad , usually dated between 1194 BC – 1184 BC, had walls with a carefully built stone base over four meters thick and some nine meters high in places, which ...
Aside the top wall there are stone sluices to drain rain and near the wall's foundation there are further outlets. The ancient city wall was listed as a key cultural relic under state protection in 1988. It was the longest city wall in the world and the city enclosed by it remained the world's largest until the 17th century.