The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location
Tower of Galata
Also known as Galata Tower, Tower of Pera
- tower
- Byzantine defensive
The great tower of the Genoese suburb of Pera, across the Golden Horn from Constantinople. Gibbon describes it as the fortified landmark the Fourth Crusade seized.
- Type
- tower
- Style
- Byzantine defensive
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 269
- Books
- 1
History
BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)
The great tower of the Genoese suburb of Pera, across the Golden Horn from Constantinople. Gibbon describes it as the fortified landmark the Fourth Crusade seized.
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