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Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sitesVan Millingen, Alexander

Philosophy

Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites

Name: Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites
Author: Van Millingen, Alexander

Van Millingen, Alexander

Istanbul (Turkey); Istanbul (Turkey) -- Antiquities

Τὸ κατὰ τὴν χρυσῆν καλουμένην φρούριον, Cantacuzene, iv. p. 292. It
  was not, however, the fortress known as the Strongylon, Cyclobion,
  Castrum Rotundum (Procopius, _De Aed._, iv. c. 8; Theophanes, p. 541;
  Anastasius, _in Hormisda PP._; Guillelmus Biblioth. _in Hadriano
  II._). That fortress stood outside the city, near the Hebdomon
  (Makrikeui), three miles to the west of the Golden Gate (Theophanes,
  pp. 541, 608). See below, p. 326.

Footnote 267:

  Cantacuzene, iv. pp. 293, 301, 302. The southern tower projects 55
  feet 7 inches from the wall, and is 60 feet 5 inches broad; the
  corresponding dimensions of the northern tower are 55-½ feet, and 60
  feet 4 inches.

Footnote 268:

  Marcellinus Comes.

Footnote 269:

  Theophanes, p. 541.

Footnote 270:

  _Ibid._, p. 785.

Footnote 271:

  Theophanes Cont., p. 385.

Footnote 272:

  Cantacuzene, iii. pp. 606, 607.

Footnote 273:

  Cantacuzene, iv. p. 304.

Footnote 274:

  Chalcocondylas, p. 62.

Footnote 275:

  Ducas, pp. 47, 48.

Footnote 276:

  _Itinéraires Russes en Orient_, p. 239, “Chateau de l’Empereur
  Kalojean. Il a trois entrées.”

Footnote 277:

  See Muralt, ad annum, _Essai de Chronographie Byzantine_, vol. ii.

Footnote 278:

  Phrantzes, p. 253.

Footnote 279:

  Paspates, p. 78.

Footnote 280:

  Mordtmann, p. 13. Above the gate, on the side facing the city, is a
  slab with the figure of the Roman eagle.

Footnote 281:

  Patriarch Constantius, _Ancient and Modern Constantinople_, p. 19.

Footnote 282:

  Banduri, _Imp. Orient._, vii. p. 150.

Footnote 283:

  See below, pp. 78, 91.

Footnote 284:

  Mordtmann, p. 13.

Footnote 285:

  Theophanes Cont., p. 223.

Footnote 286:

  Page 779.

                               CHAPTER V.
             THE GATES IN THE THEODOSIAN WALLS—_continued_.

The entrance between the thirteenth and fourteenth towers to the north
of the Golden Gate was the Second Military Gate, τοῦ Δευτέρου.[287] Its
identity is established by its position in the order of the gates; for
between it and the Fifth Military Gate, regarding the situation of which
there can be no doubt,[288] two military gates intervene. It must
therefore be itself the second of that series of entrances.

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Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sitesVan Millingen, Alexander

Philosophy

Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites

Van Millingen, Alexander

Istanbul (Turkey); Istanbul (Turkey) -- Antiquities

Τὸ κατὰ τὴν χρυσῆν καλουμένην φρούριον, Cantacuzene, iv. p. 292. It
  was not, however, the fortress known as the Strongylon, Cyclobion,
  Castrum Rotundum (Procopius, _De Aed._, iv. c. 8; Theophanes, p. 541;
  Anastasius, _in Hormisda PP._; Guillelmus Biblioth. _in Hadriano
  II._). That fortress stood outside the city, near the Hebdomon
  (Makrikeui), three miles to the west of the Golden Gate (Theophanes,
  pp. 541, 608). See below, p. 326.

Footnote 267:

  Cantacuzene, iv. pp. 293, 301, 302. The southern tower projects 55
  feet 7 inches from the wall, and is 60 feet 5 inches broad; the
  corresponding dimensions of the northern tower are 55-½ feet, and 60
  feet 4 inches.

Footnote 268:

  Marcellinus Comes.

Footnote 269:

  Theophanes, p. 541.

Footnote 270:

  _Ibid._, p. 785.

Footnote 271:

  Theophanes Cont., p. 385.

Footnote 272:

  Cantacuzene, iii. pp. 606, 607.

Footnote 273:

  Cantacuzene, iv. p. 304.

Footnote 274:

  Chalcocondylas, p. 62.

Footnote 275:

  Ducas, pp. 47, 48.

Footnote 276:

  _Itinéraires Russes en Orient_, p. 239, “Chateau de l’Empereur
  Kalojean. Il a trois entrées.”

Footnote 277:

  See Muralt, ad annum, _Essai de Chronographie Byzantine_, vol. ii.

Footnote 278:

  Phrantzes, p. 253.

Footnote 279:

  Paspates, p. 78.

Footnote 280:

  Mordtmann, p. 13. Above the gate, on the side facing the city, is a
  slab with the figure of the Roman eagle.

Footnote 281:

  Patriarch Constantius, _Ancient and Modern Constantinople_, p. 19.

Footnote 282:

  Banduri, _Imp. Orient._, vii. p. 150.

Footnote 283:

  See below, pp. 78, 91.

Footnote 284:

  Mordtmann, p. 13.

Footnote 285:

  Theophanes Cont., p. 223.

Footnote 286:

  Page 779.

                               CHAPTER V.
             THE GATES IN THE THEODOSIAN WALLS—_continued_.

The entrance between the thirteenth and fourteenth towers to the north
of the Golden Gate was the Second Military Gate, τοῦ Δευτέρου.[287] Its
identity is established by its position in the order of the gates; for
between it and the Fifth Military Gate, regarding the situation of which
there can be no doubt,[288] two military gates intervene. It must
therefore be itself the second of that series of entrances.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites

Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites

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