City Wall and Moat
City Wall and Moat is located in Beirut, Lebanon.
History
[edit]Wall and moat were built atop the Phoenician cemetery, and cut across the ruins of the Phoenico-Persian, Hellenistic and Roman residences. The wall was built around the 9th century and dismantled at the beginning of the 20th century. Souk Al-Jamil was built over the backfilled moat. In the late 19th century, the city wall and its moat lost their strategic significance.
Moat
[edit]Located outside the city wall, the moat played an important defensive role in times of war.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Sources
[edit]- Curvers, Hans H. and Stuart, Barbara (1996) “Bey 008, The 1994 Results”, Bulletin d’Archéologie et d’Architecture Libanaises 1: 228-234.
- El-Masri, Sami (1999) Beirut: The City and its Crafts in the Medieval Period. Ph.D. Dissertation, Freie Universität, Berlin.
- Mongne, Pascal (1996) « Bey 008 bis, Zone des Souks, Dégagement du fossé médiéval », Bulletin d’Archéologie et d’Architecture Libanaises 1 :270-293.