Long Wall (Thracian Chersonese)

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The Long Wall (

Thracian Chersonese (the modern peninsula of Gallipoli) in Antiquity
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History

Map of the Thracian Chersonese in Antiquity

The Long Wall was actually a succession of walls on the base of the

Hellenica, III.2.8–10; Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, XIV.38.7), to protect the peninsula from raids by the Thracian tribes.[1][3]

The wall continues to be mentioned by various Greek and Roman geographers throughout antiquity, but by the fourth century it was apparently in a dilapidated state; in 400, the

Kotrigurs in 559.[1][4]

The wall is no longer mentioned thereafter, although it was included (often erroneously located) in maps of the 15th–19th centuries.

Partitio Romaniae of 1204 as Icalotichas, refers to the wall.[5]

Location and remains

The exact location of the wall is unknown. The most likely localization is on the isthmus 5 km east of

Propontis near modern Kazan Ağacı north to Ortaköy and thence northwest to the mouths of the river Melas in the Gulf of Saros. The length of such a wall would make it very hard to defend, however. [6]

One 19th-century source reports remnants of the fortifications at the entrance of the peninsula, but this is nowhere else corroborated. Likewise no archaeological digs have found any remains. Remnants of walls near Kazan Ağacı and Bolair cannot be definitely linked to the wall, although a trench near Germe Tepe has been proposed as having been part of this fortification line.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Külzer 2008, p. 238.
  2. OCLC 264043716
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  3. ^ a b Spring 2015, p. 58.
  4. ^ Spring 2015, p. 186.
  5. ^ Külzer 2008, pp. 238, 459–460.
  6. ^ Külzer 2008, pp. 238–239.
  7. ^ Külzer 2008, p. 239.

Sources

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