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EXAMILIA (Small town) KORINTHOS
The Isthmus of Corinth
is a narrow strip of land between Central Greece and the Peloponnese,
and it is the only entrance from the north into the southernmost part of the Greek
mainland. For that reason, it played an important part in the history of the area.
Again and again, the Peloponnesians built and repaired α line of walls across
the narrow neck of land, to the south of the modern canal. In recent years, the
foundations of a Cyclopean wall have been discovered south of the sanctuary
of Poseidon; this must have been constructed in the late Mycenean period in
α vain attempt to stem the Dorian invasion.
Much of the Hexamilian Wall, built in the time of the Emperor Justinian
of Byzantium, has survived.
It was subsequently reconstructed twice - in 1415 by Manheul ΙΙ Palaeologus and
in 1443 by Constantine Palaeologus before the Turks finally broke through it
in 1446. The wall is 7,300 meters long, with α thickness of 3 m., 153 towers and
a large tort at either end. Much ancient material from the sanctuary
of Poseidon was incorporated into the wall - so much, indeed, that it was
believed for many centuries that it has been a Classical structure.
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