Thessaloniki's walls - Thessaloniki
 As it is inferred, Thessaioniki had its Walls built around immediately after its establishment by Cassandrus in 315 BC. The walls form a quadrilateral construction comprising two vertical sides in the direction of the sea (eastern and western walls) as well as two parallel ones (the ones along the seaside were demolished during the Turkish occupation). The Citadel and the Castle of Eptapyrgion (the seven-tower castle) are formed at the upper part.
The principal fortification projects of Thessaloniki were carried out during the reign of the emperor Theodosius (379-395), while other worthwhile works were carried out during the reigns of the emperors: Zenon (474-491 AD); Anastasios I (491-518 AD) and Leon The Wise (886-912 AD). Completions were also carried out by Basil I The Bulgarian -Killer (976-1025) and during the reign of the Palaeologic Dynasty in the 14th century.
 " The Gate of Rome " (near the White Tower); " The Cassandrian Gate " , a part of which still exists in the today's Syntrivani (Fountain) Square " and the " Pseudogolden " or New Golden Gate " in the western and eastern section of the today Agiou Demetriou (Saint Demetrius) street; " The Axios Gate " or " The Golden Gate " and " Santa Anne Palaeologina's Gate " , which exists intact in the Citadel of the Upper City, next to the Trigonion Tower. The famous " White Tower " , likely built during the last years of the Venetian Occupation (or a little later) in the position of a previously existing Byzantine area, is also attached to the city walls, where the well known gates of the walls are.
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