Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites

by Alexander Van Millingen

[191]. Cod. Theod., “De Operibus Publicis,” lib. 51.

[192]. Theophanes, p. 589; Phrantzes, p. 281.

[193]. Nicephorus Gregoras, ix. p. 408.

[194]. Ducas, p. 283.

[195]. Constant. Porphyr., De Cer., p. 504.

[196]. Cananus, p. 476.

[197]. Critobulus, i. c. 34.

[198]. Or “Lists, the space between the Inner and the Outer Walls of enceinte or enclosure” (Violet-le-Duc on Mediæval Fortifications; translated by Macdermott).

[199]. Only seventy out of the ninety-six towers in this wall can now be identified.

[200]. Cananus, p. 475.