Greek rebels led by Mavrovouniotis landed in Beirut, 1826, to free Syria from Ottomans but failed. Local resistance and ...

According to Pliny, the temple was 425 feet (129m) in length and 225 feet (68m) wide – that's nearly double the size of the Parthenon in Athens ... Lush, exotic plants and trees cascaded over its ...

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Due to its size and capacity for a large ... the Hippodrome to the shelter of the Great Palace walls. The emperor’s retreat served to embolden the mob, which promptly spilled onto the streets of ...

However, it was not until the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople ... that adorn the outside walls, which are flanked by symmetrical floral designs. A total of 28 cubicles (hujras) and two pavilions, ...

Hadrian’s Wall — the inspiration for Game of Thrones’ Wall — was built by the Romans in the second century A.D. in what is ...

Restored section of the Theodosian Walls at the Selymbria Gate. Credit: Bigdaddy1204 / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons As the wealthy capital of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, Constantinople ...

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