Μεσαιωνική πόλη της Ρόδου
Also known as Medieval City of Rhodes
1309
Gothic
landscape
The Medieval City of Rhodes is a walled Hospitaller town occupying the northern tip of the island of Rhodes, an ensemble of stone walls, towers, gates, a dry moat, fausse-braye, and fortified moles that frame an inhabited Gothic-and-later…
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- 1444-1521
Successive Grand Masters thickened the landward defenses with round towers, a widened moat, revetted earthworks, and gun platforms to meet the new conditions of artillery warfare.
- 1522
The six-month Ottoman siege damaged the fortifications;the new administration repaired the defenses without substantially altering the Hospitaller system.
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