A massive triple-line fortification running from the Sea of Marmara to the Golden Horn, the Theodosian Walls consisted of a 60-foot moat, an outer wall 30 feet high with 96 towers, and an inner wall standing 40 feet taller still, with 96 additional towers. Standing for over a thousand years, they repelled even Attila the Hun and were considered the most formidable defensive works of the ancient or medieval world. In 1453 a garrison of just seven thousand defenders held them against more than ten times their number for over a month before Ottoman artillery, including Orban's great cannon, finally reduced them to rubble.
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Episode 16 (18 mentions)
Brownworth describes these walls as the most formidable in the ancient or medieval worlds — over a thousand years old at the time of the siege — consisting of a 60-foot moat, an outer wall 30 feet high with 96 towers, and an inner wall 40 feet higher with 96 more towers. Even Attila the Hun turned away from them, but Orban's great cannon reduced them to rubble.
Episode 17 (1 mention)
Brownworth marvels that the Theodosian land walls, which still march from the Sea of Marmara to the Golden Horn, were held by just seven thousand men for over a month against more than ten times their number, calling it one of history's great feats of resistance.
“even today you can walk those Theodosian land walls that still march the long miles from the Sea of Mamara to the waters of”
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