The Anastasian Wall (Greek: Ἀναστάσειον Τεῖχος, Anastáseion Teîchos; Turkish: Anastasius Suru) or the Long Walls of Thrace (Greek: Μακρὰ Τείχη τῆς Θράκης...

greatest of these is the 56 km long Anastasian Wall (Gk. τεῖχος Ἀναστασιακόν, teichos Anastasiakon) or Long Wall (μακρὸν τεῖχος, makron teichos, or μεγάλη...

as city walls or town walls, although there were also walls, such as the Great Wall of China, Walls of Benin, Hadrian's Wall, Anastasian Wall, and the...

The Anastasian Wall Battle or Battle at the Anastasian Wall, which took place at the end of winter – beginning of spring 559, was a pivotal battle between...

Long Wall may also refer to: Anastasian Wall Long Wall on the Thracian Chersonese Long Wall of China, more commonly known as the Great Wall Long Wall of...

Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Vallum Hadriani, also known as the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Aelium in Latin) is a former defensive fortification of the...

Constantinople in Turkey Anastasian Wall in Turkey Antonine Wall in Scotland, United Kingdom – part of UNESCO site 430 Aurelian Walls of Rome Walls of Ston in Croatia...

The Antonine Wall (Latin: Vallum Antonini) was a turf fortification on stone foundations, built by the Romans across what is now the Central Belt of Scotland...

from a wall during a siege. The method used was to penetrate the protective wall with the hook and then retract it, pulling away some of the wall with it...

the 5th century, the city was also protected by the Anastasian Wall, a 60-kilometer chain of walls across the Thracian peninsula. Many scholars[who?] argue...

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recoil was so great that it made the onager impossible to place on stone walls because the stones would be dislodged. This was confirmed by a reconstructed...

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the metropolitan capital from the fourth century AD until 1453 Anastasian Wall, a wall named built in the late 5th century to ensure extra defenses for...

ancient Roman warfare, the testudo or tortoise formation was a type of shield wall formation commonly used by the Roman legions during battles, particularly...

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scouts. They may have lived in the paramilitary zone between the Antonine Wall and the Vallum to the south. The term "areani" means "people of the sheep-folds"...

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The Anastasian War was fought from 502 to 506 between the Byzantine Empire and the Sasanian Empire. It was the first major conflict between the two powers...

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earthworks and siege towers, and as an element in cities' defences, mounted on walls and towers. A further development of torsion siege engines scorpio was the...

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frequently constructed to weaken city walls. Once dug, sappers would underpin the walls with wood and cause the walls to collapse by firing the supports...