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Medieval City
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The Medieval City of Rhodes is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that is internationally recognized for its abundance of Byzantine, Crusade and Ottoman architecture and history. The medieval city is surrounded by a 4 kilometer fortified wall that covers a surface area of 8,611,128 square feet and was built to protect Rhodes from attack by sieging foreign empires and corsairs who sailed the water of the Mediterranean and Aegean during the Middle Ages. The old city was fortified under the Knights Hospitallers who occupied Rhodes between 1309 and 1522. The massive city walls were long considered to be impenetrable, but they finally yielded to the Ottoman Turks at the beginning of the 16th century.
