Arab raid against Rome
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In 846, Arab raiders plundered the outskirts of the city of Rome, sacking the basilicas of Old St Peter's and St Paul's-Outside-the-Walls, but were prevented from entering the city itself by the Aurel
A section of Aurelian Wall between the Porta Ardeatina and Porta San Sebastiano
Old St Peter's, 19th-century reconstruction
Aurelian Walls
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The Aurelian Walls are a line of city walls built between AD 271 and AD 275 in Rome, Italy, during the reign of the Roman Emperor Aurelian. They superseded the earlier Servian Wall built during the 4t
Arab raid against Rome
…of the city of Rome, sacking the basilicas of Old St Peter's and St Paul's-Outside-the-Walls, but were prevented from entering the city itself by the Aurelian Walls. In the 820s, the Aghlabids of Ifriqiya (known by medieval Italians as the Saracens) began their conquest of Sicily. In 842, Arab forces under the rule…
Porta Asinaria.
A section of wall near the Pyramid of Cestius.
An interior view of the Aurelian Walls near Porta San Sebastiano.