The Strongest Walls of Constantinople (Istanbul, Türkiye), the First Technology to Breach the Theodosian Walls of Constantinople, the Benefit of the Walls of Constantinople for the Byzantine Empire, the Person Who Constructed the Hagia Sophia, the Largest Architecture Within Christendom During the Middle Ages, the Number of Disparate Marble Types Which Adorn the Walls of Hagia Sophia, the Size of the Great Dome of Hagia Sophia and Palestinian Historian Procopius’ (No Last Name) Quote Related to the Great Dome of Hagia Sophia, the Period When the Minarets of Hagia Sophia Were Added, the Height of the Great Dome of Hagia Sophia, the Reason an Upper Gallery Was Added to Hagia Sophia, the Column of Justinian Erected for Macedonian Emperor Justinian I, the Person Who Destroyed the Column of Justinian, and the Fallacy Many Believed Regarding the Column of Justinian and the Reason for This

The walls of Constantinople, in particular the Theodosian Walls, were among the most formidable engineered walls of the Roman world, incredibly important in terms of barricading the city off as Constantinople is triangular in shape with water surrounding 2 sides of it. The walls were resistant to all forms of technology until the Ottomans came forward with gunpowder in 1453. The walls of Constantinople allowed the city to resist all waves of invasion throughout the centuries, to function as a hu...

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