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The Walls of Constantinople

by B. Granville Baker

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The Theodosian land walls held for a thousand years, and Baker walks their whole length: the towers and gates and the moat, the Golden Gate and its triumphs, the sea walls, the sieges by Avars, Arabs, Bulgars and Crusaders — and the morning in 1453 when a small gate was left unfastened.

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