The Hexamilion wall (Greek: Εξαμίλιον τείχος, "six-mile wall") was a defensive wall constructed across the Isthmus of Corinth, guarding the only land...

Greek government to protect this archaeological site. The Hexamilion wall is a Roman defensive wall constructed across the Isthmus of Corinth guarding the...

Crusade more than two hundred years before and rebuilt the ancient Hexamilion wall, which defended the peninsula from outside attacks. Although ultimately...

deployed large bombards at the siege of Salonica in 1430, and against the Hexamilion wall at the Isthmus of Corinth in 1446. At the siege of Constantinople in...

Wars: The Ottoman governor of Thessaly Turahan Bey breaks through the Hexamilion wall for the second time, and ravages the Peloponnese Peninsula. January...

fortify the peninsula at the Isthmus of Corinth by rebuilding the Hexamilion wall. The Ottoman defeat at the Battle of Ankara in 1402 and the subsequent...

reconstruct the Hexamilion wall, destroyed by the Turks in 1431. Together, they completely restored the wall, which was finished in March 1444. The wall was destroyed...

1446 the Ottoman Sultan Murad II destroyed the Byzantine defences—the Hexamilion wall at the Isthmus of Corinth. His attack opened the peninsula to invasion...

the region under Murad II, destroying the Byzantine defenses – the Hexamilion wall – at the Isthmus of Corinth in 1446. Before the final siege of Constantinople...

devastation of Alaric's raid in 396–397 led to the construction of the Hexamilion wall across the Isthmus of Corinth. Through most of late antiquity, the...

Kechries (ancient Cenchreae). The name likely derives from the adjacent Hexamilion Wall, although it had not been in use for some time before the town was...

in 1460, the Ottoman army attacked Morea and quickly breached the Hexamilion wall across the Isthmus of Corinth, which was too long to be effectively...

Morea and supervised its administration and defense, rebuilding the Hexamilion wall across the Isthmus of Corinth. A moment of drastic change in policy...

Murad II against Palaiologos in late 1446. The Ottomans breached the Hexamilion wall and devastated the Morea, forcing the despots to become Ottoman vassals...

The Ottoman governor of Thessaly, Turakhan Beg, breaks through the Hexamilion wall for the fourth time, and ravages the Peloponnese Peninsula to prevent...

retook Argos and refortified the Isthmus of Corinth, restoring the Hexamilion wall and equipping it with many cannons. They then proceeded to besiege...

Hun bodyguard is killed; mass murders of Vandal soldiers follow. The Hexamilion wall is constructed. Fortifications are built across the Isthmus of Corinth...

knights taken prisoner in Pelagonia, and whose house was within the city walls, had promised to open a gate for the emperor's troops. He failed to do so...

several weeks, Sultan Murad II, of the Ottoman Empire, destroys the Hexamilion wall, in an assault that includes cannons. Murad and the Ottoman governor...

barbarian invasions from the north. The stone wall was about six miles (10 km) long and was named Hexamilion ("six-miles"). Corinth declined from the 6th...

Parigoritissa Didymoteicho Fortress Feraklos Castle Gardiki Castle Hexamilion wall Hosios Loukas Kassiopi Castle Meteora Mount Athos Monastery of Saint...

Italy during the Second World War Hadrian's Wall, built by the Romans in northern Britain Hexamilion wall, built across the Isthmus of Corinth Hilsea...

5,000 years ago. The oldest known example of a built structure, a stone wall that blocked two-thirds of the entrance to the Theopetra cave, was constructed...

disuse and its material was partly re-used for the building of the Hexamilion wall which was used as protection against invading barbarians in the 5th...

plan below), and markets seem to have been located outside of the city walls. The Palace of the Despots expanded over the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries...

Parigoritissa Didymoteicho Fortress Feraklos Castle Gardiki Castle Hexamilion wall Hosios Loukas Kassiopi Castle Meteora Mount Athos Monastery of Saint...

The Walls of Thessaloniki (Greek: Τείχη της Θεσσαλονίκης, Teíchi tis Thessaloníkis) are the 4 kilometer-long city walls surrounding the city of Thessaloniki...

most important commercial centres in the Eastern Mediterranean. The town's walls and many Byzantine churches remain as testaments to the town's history....

the city's aid. In the event, the Normans undermined the city's eastern wall, opening a breach through which they entered the city. They slaughtered the...

Hosios Loukas (Greek: Ὅσιος Λουκᾶς) is a historic walled monastery situated near the town of Distomo, in Boeotia, Greece. Founded in the mid-10th century...