Fortaleza de Vardari 🏰 (Top Hane, Arsenal) junto à Muralha Ocidental

Thessaloniki was founded in 316 BC by Kassandros who married the sister of Alexander the Great, Thessaloniki, and gave her name to the new city. The city was fortified since its establishment, but the present walls date from the early Byzantine period, ca. 390, and incorporate parts of an earlier, late 3rd-century wall, which it used as a buttress. The walls consist of the typical late Roman mixed construction of ashlar masonry alternating with bands of brick. To protect the city from the raids of the Goths, the new walls had the shape of a trapezium and were about 8 km long. In the lower, more vulnerable section of the city, they were strengthened by an outwork and had stout triangular bulwarks placed at frequent intervals. At the south-west end of the sea wall was the large artificial harbor that was constructed by Constantine during his stay in Thessaloniki (322-323). Large towers and forts acted as nodal points in the perimeter of the walls. Their present form is the outcome of major works undertaken by the Turks after the capture of the city to strengthen its fortifications and adapt them to the new requirements of artillery warfare.
Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566) built the Vardari Fort at the south-west edge of the enceinte, to protect the west side of the harbor. The east section of the perimeter wall of this fortress incorporated part of the west wall of the Early Christian period. kastra.eu/castleen.php?kastro=thesniki
thebyzantinelegacy.com/thessaloniki-walls

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