City walls of Athens
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The city of Athens, capital of modern Greece, has had different sets of city walls from the Bronze Age to the early 19th century. The city walls of Athens include:
The fortifications of Classical Athens, including the Themistoclean Wall around the city and the Long Walls
Pelasgic wall
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The Pelasgic wall or Pelasgian fortress or Enneapylon was a monument supposed to have been built by the Pelasgians, after levelling the summit of the rock on the Acropolis of Athens. The wall was beli
City walls of Athens
…the Mycenaean Cyclopean fortifications of the Acropolis of Athens the Pelasgic wall at the foot of the Acropolis the so-called "Archaic Wall", whose existence and course are debated by scholars…
Sketch of the course of the Pelasgic wall.
Pelasgic wall on the summit of the Acropolis, south of the Modern Museum
Southwest wing of the Propylaea and Pelasgic wall.
The Acropolis of Athens viewed from the Hill of the Muses