Oscar

I think it is Byzantium too

maximusslade

Knaur and Oscar are correct. The walls shown are the Theodosian walls of Constantinople. Breached only once in their 1000+ year history when the Ottomans took the city in 1453. Since Knaur answered first, I will say he is next to ask a question.

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Oscar

Just a minor point: Byzantium had indeed been already taken before, by the crusaders and the Venetians in 1204.

Having said that, since Knaur answered first it's his turn.

maximusslade

Yes, buuuuuuuuuut the crusaders did not breech the LAND WALLS. The crusaders stormed the sea walls, which are very different from the land walls.

Oscar

You're right, the main attack came from the Venetians who took control of Galata, but nonetheless some crusaders had actually succeded in making holes into the walls and entered the city by surprise .

maximusslade

Be that as it may, the historical contention is that the Theodosian walls were not breached until the Ottomans blew them apart with cannon.

Edit: I have read up a little more on the walls and this is what Wiki has to say, "In the northwestern corner of the city, the suburb of Blachernae with its important church of Panagia Vlacherniotissa was left out of the Theodosian walls. To defend it, in the face of the great Avar siege, a single wall was built, around 627, in the reign of Heraclius. In 814, Leo V the Armenian built a new wall in front of the Heraclean one to safeguard against Bulgarian raids. In the 12th century, when Blachernae had become the favoured imperial residence, Manuel I Komnenos built a wall, starting from the end of the Theodosian Walls, to protect the imperial palaces, which was connected by a later wall (possibly under Isaac II Angelos) to the Heraclean wall.[17] Despite all this, the defences of the Blachernae section remained weaker than at the Theodosian Walls, and it was here the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade managed to penetrate them and first enter the city." The Blachernae wall was not part of the Theodosian wall but rather a smaller extenstion outside to protect imperial palaces and churches outside the actual walls.

Knaur Amarsh

Ok,here's an easy one....a type of Turkish carpet takes its name from a particular queen,a contemporary of Alexander....name the carpet and the queen

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Oscar

Milas carpet and queen Ada of Caria

Knaur Amarsh

Right,go ahead and post a question

Oscar

Who is the explorator who left his country to conduct a scientific expedition, visited the pacific shores of the American continent, then sailed to Japan and Alaska to finally go south and disappeared after their departure from Australia. Two wreckred ships of his expedition with no traces of the crews were to be discovered thirty years later in an island north of the Australian continent.

bolo121

Sorry to butt in but for once i actually think i know the answer...
Jean Francois de Galaup

Oscar

Right, Jean-Francois de Galaup, Comte de La Pérouse !

Your turn

bolo121

Ill let someone else take it as i haven't been able to think up a good question yet.

Kansas Bear

This person,

offered to fight in the air force for Iran in the Iran-Iraq War(he was refused)
has spoken at Georgetown
his father died in Cairo
graduated from University of California with a degree in Political Science


Who is this person?

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maximusslade

Gamal Sadat