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Fortress of Justinian (Albanian: Kalaja e Justinianit) or simply known as Tirana Castle (Albanian: Kalaja e Tiranës) is a castle in Tirana, Albania. Its history dates back before 1300 and is a remnant from the Byzantine-era. The fortress is the place where the main east–west and north–south roads crossed, and formed the heart of Tirana.
Aeroimage in 1937. Photo archive of the Military Geographical Institute of Serbia [5]. Justiniana Prima was founded by Emperor Justinian I in 535. Built on the site of Tauresium, a remote village, [6] it existed until 615 and was designed as the seat of the Archbishopric of Justiniana Prima.
The inner space of the fortification has a total area of approximately 1.2 hectares and it is typical construction for the period of the Emperor Justinian the Great (6th century AD), respectively, the Podgrađe fortress takes part in the frame of the net fortifications erected in Dardania during the end of the Late Antiquity.
The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai – The Church and Fortress of Justinian: Plates. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-472-33000-4. Paul Géhin (2017). Les manuscrits syriaques de parchemin du Sinaï et leur membra disjecta. CSCO 665 / Subsidia 136. Louvain: Peeters. ISBN 978-90-429-3501-3; Margaret Dunlop Gibson (1893).
The fortress contained two gates (north and south), of which the northern gate functioned as the formal entrance to the Peloponnese. [4] In the reign of Justinian, the wall was fortified with additional towers, reaching a total number of 153, [5] with forts at either end and the construction of Justinian's Fortress at Isthmia. The building of ...
In the 6th century, it was constructed by Byzantine emperor Justinian I, [1] and due to its strategic location became a battleground of the 541–562 Lazic War between Rome and Sasanian Persia (Iran). It was identified with the Medieval fortress of Batumi, known as Tamaris Tsikhe, i.e. Queen Tamar's Castle. [2]
Justinian (born 482) and Vigilantia were children of Vigilantia (born c. 455), a sister of Justin I (r. 518–527), founder of the Justinian dynasty.The family originated in Bederiana, near Naissus (modern Niš in Serbia) in Dacia Mediterranea. [2]
The ruins of the Taq-e Kasra today Khosrow is known to have ordered many public works projects during his long reign, such bridges, roads, dams and walls. [ 86 ] To protect the frontiers of Iran, Khosrow had a sequence of walls built (and fortified) around his empire, much like the Great Wall of China and Hadrian's Wall in Northern England . [ 87 ]