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Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi

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

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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.