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From the 5th century, the city was also protected by the Anastasian Wall, a 60-kilometer chain of walls across the Thracian peninsula.
The Balkan provinces however were left denuded of troops and were devastated by invasions of Slavs and Bulgars ; to protect Constantinople and its vicinity against them the emperor built the Anastasian Wall, extending from the Propontis to the Euxine.
Alarmed by the depredations of Slavs and Bulgars in Thrace, he builds the Anastasian Wall from the Black Sea to Propontis, across the narrow peninsula near Constantinople ( modern Turkey ).
Instead, he moved to the " Long Wall " ( the Chersonese Long Wall or, less probably, the Anastasian Wall ), then to Pylai and from there to Chalcedon.
Kormisosh of Bulgaria raided as far as the Anastasian Wall, but was defeated in battle by Constantine V, who inaugurated a long series of nine successful campaigns against the Bulgarians in the next year, scoring a victory over Kormisosh's successor Vinekh at Marcelae.
These continuing Bulgar invasions required the Byzantine Empire to build a defensive wall, called the " Anastasian Wall ," that extended for some thirty ( 30 ) miles, or more, from the city of Selymbria ( now Silivri ) to the Black Sea.
The first and greatest of these is the 56 km long Anastasian Wall ( Gk.
In addition, between the Anastasian Wall and the city itself, there were several small towns and fortresses like Selymbria, Rhegion or the great suburb of Hebdomon (" Seventh ", modern Bakırköy, so named from its distance of seven Roman miles from the city walls ), the site of major military encampments.
Rebuffed, Kormisosh raided into Thrace, reaching the Anastasian Wall stretching between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara 40 km in front of Constantinople.

Wall and also
The Great Wall of China is also a beacon network.
The Ming Chinese also mounted over 3, 000 cast bronze and iron cannon on the Great Wall of China, to defend against the Mongols.
NOTS is also known as the Second Wall of Fire.
It also ranks first in High School Counselor Rankings as of 2012. The college ranks number seven in The Wall Street Journals ranking of top feeder schools.
According to a 2008 article in The Wall Street Journal, Dartmouth graduates also earn higher median salaries at least 10 years after graduation than alumni of any other American university surveyed.
Inspired by the USSR's Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall, this group also favored a new political orientation, focused less on Marxism and armed struggle, and more on the democratisation of Palestinian society.
The Berlin Wall was also extensively covered by Graffiti reflecting social pressures relating to the oppressive Soviet rule over the GDR.
A wall was built ( nowadays known as Charles V Wall ); also a ditch by the wall of the town and a drawbridge at the Landport ( Puerta de Tierra ).
Aside from publishing, Segal has also reported on gay life from far reaching places as Lebanon, Cuba, and East Berlin during the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Temple of Mithras is one example of the popularity of mystery religions amongst the rich urban classes and temples to Mithras also exist in military contexts at Vindobala on Hadrian's Wall ( the Rudchester Mithraeum ) and at Segontium in Roman Wales ( the Caernarfon Mithraeum ).
Melville also wrote Billy Budd, White-Jacket, Israel Potter, Redburn, Typee, Omoo, Pierre, The Confidence-Man and many short stories, including " Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street " and " Benito Cereno ," and works of various genres.
Preceding Livermore, future statesman Bernard M. Baruch also operated such pools before removing his investors and was later known as the " lone wolf on Wall Street ", as he managed his own fortune.
Ibn Battuta also reported " the rampart of Yajuj and Majuj " was " sixty days ' travel " from the city of Zeitun ( Quanzhou ); Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb notes that Ibn Battuta believed that Great Wall of China was built by Dhul-Qarnayn to contain Gog and Magog as mentioned in the Quran.
The journalist R. Foster Winans was also convicted, on the grounds that he had misappropriated information belonging to his employer, the Wall Street Journal.
Frankenheimer won four consecutive Emmy Awards in the 1990s for the television movies Against the Wall, The Burning Season, Andersonville, and George Wallace, which also received a Golden Globe award.
Wall has also alluded to his faith when he has spoken at conferences, including a rather straightforward statement of his beliefs at the August, 1997 Perl Conference and a discussion of Pilgrim's Progress at the YAPC ( Yet Another Perl Conference ) in June, 2000.
West Germans could also visit, making Balaton a common meeting place for families and friends separated by the Berlin Wall until 1989.
Many unknown but also known artists such as Thierry Noir and Keith Haring painted on the Wall, the “ World's longest canvas ”.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 the Eastern side of the Wall became also a popular “ canvas ” for many mural and graffiti artists.
* 1929 – Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
Scott is also commemorated on a stone slab in Makars ' Court, outside The Writers ' Museum, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, along with other prominent Scottish writers ; quotes from his work are also visible on the Canongate Wall of the Scottish Parliament building in Holyrood.
It resulted in the Greenwood District, also known as ' the Negro Wall Street ' and the wealthiest African-American community in the United States, being burned to the ground.

Wall and known
The Qin Dynasty is well known for beginning the Great Wall of China, which was later augmented and enhanced during the Ming Dynasty.
The Manchus were formerly known as Jurchen, residing in the northeastern part of the Ming territory outside the Great Wall.
It is available after Xenu and the now well known First Wall of Fire.
The city had the third busiest port in the U. S. and its financial district was known as the " Wall Street of the South.
The Giza pyramid complex, which includes among other structures the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, is surrounded by a cyclopean stone wall, the Wall of the Crow, and outside of which Mark Lehner has discovered a worker's town, otherwise known as " The Lost City ", dated by pottery styles, seal impressions, and stratigraphy to have been constructed and occupied sometime during the reigns of Khafre ( 2520 – 2494 BC ) and Menkaure ( 2490 – 2472 BC ).
When Hadrian reached Britannia on his famous tour of the Roman provinces around 120, he directed an extensive defensive wall, known to posterity as Hadrian's Wall, to be built close to the line of the Stanegate frontier.
He is best known for building Hadrian's Wall, which marked the northern limit of Roman Britain.
However, it was universally known as the Berlin Wall and the majority opinion was that its primary purpose was to keep East German citizens from escaping to the West.
Larry Wall ( born September 27, 1954 ) is a computer programmer and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987.
Since 2006, the Vikings have been known especially for their strong run defense (# 1 in the NFL in 2006, 2007, and 2008 ; they are the first NFL team to accomplish this since the AFL – NFL merger in 1970 ), anchored by the Williams Wall consisting of defensive tackle Kevin Williams and nose tackle Pat Williams ( no relation ).
As well known as the " Great Wall of Purple " & " The 4 Norsemen ".
The western retaining wall of the original temple, known as the Wailing Wall, or Western Wall remains in the Old City of Jerusalem and this has been the most sacred site for religious Jews.
Ahmad Shah Massoud, known as the " Lion of Panjshir ", had been named " the Afghan who won the Cold War " by the Wall Street Journal and had defeated the Soviet Red Army nine times in north-eastern Afghanistan.
The traditionally black district of Greenwood in Tulsa had a commercial district so prosperous it was known as " the Negro Wall Street " ( now commonly referred to as " the Black Wall Street ").
Although Trabants had been exported from East Germany, they became well known in the West after the fall of the Berlin Wall when many were abandoned by their Eastern owners after migrating westward.
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression.
* 13. 7 Ym — Length of the largest known cosmic structure, the Sloan Great Wall
Columbia Business School is known for its close ties to Wall Street and the seminal work completed in the field of Finance by professors Benjamin Graham and David Dodd.

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