File:Marine Gate and east walls of the medieval city of Rhodes (9451893653).jpg
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[edit]DescriptionMarine Gate and east walls of the medieval city of Rhodes (9451893653).jpg |
The fortifications of the town of Rhodes are shaped like a defensive crescent around the old town and consist mostly in a modern fortification composed of a huge wall made of an embankment encased in stone, equipped with scarp, bastions, moat, counterscarp and glacis. The portion of fortifications facing the harbour is instead composed of a crenellated wall. On the moles towers and defensive forts are found. They were built by the Knights Hospitaller of Saint John by enhancing the existing Byzantine walls starting from 1309, the year in which they took possession of the island after a three-year struggle.[1][2] Like most of the defensive walls they were built with a technique[3] called rubble masonry which allows for a great mass capable of withstanding the gunshots with smooth external stone faces to avoid climbing. The defence of different portions of fortifications was assigned to different Langue (tongues) of Knights. The North face was under the rule of the Grand Master, then moving west and South the posts were hold by the Langue of France and Alvernia, the Langue of Spain (Spanish and Portuguese), the Langue of Germany (English and German), and the Langue of Italy. Bastions and terrepleins still hold the name of the langue involved (e.g. Bastion of Italy, terreplein of Spain). |
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Source | Marine Gate and east walls of the medieval city of Rhodes |
Author | Jorge Láscar from Australia |
Camera location | 36° 26′ 40.26″ N, 28° 13′ 43.38″ E | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 36.444517; 28.228717 |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Jorge Lascar at https://www.flickr.com/photos/8721758@N06/9451893653. It was reviewed on 2 April 2014 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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Date and time of data generation | 07:20, 2 September 2012 |
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