The Great Wall of Istanbul: The Walls of Anastasios
According to the news of TRT Haber; A hundred years ago, civilizations were building walls to protect their lands from the look of the future. The most famous of these walls is the Great Wall of China and a small Hadrian’s Wall in England. The Anastasios Walls were built to protect Istanbul from attacks from the Balkans.
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It stands upright on the Black Sea coast of Çatalca, an important part of the Anastasios Walls, built between 507-512 during the Byzantine period. Art Historian Hayri Fehmi Yılmaz tells about the location of the “Anastasios Walls” as the “Long Wall”:
“More or less, Silivri – the ancient city of Selymbria – is just getting started. It extends to the Black Sea. This is a wall that crosses all of Thrace between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. The works of Feridun Dirimtekin are found 52 kilometers from this wall. Some are 45 kilometers in advance. There are probably exhibits in the field, something valuable needs to be done. We’re talking about a 50 kilometer wall. This wall on a hat from Silivri to Karacaköy, Evcik Beach.”
Yılmaz gives things that are not related to what is consumed as much as what is grown and not produced:
“The building material of the wall is cut stone on both sides. With a technique called ‘the chest wall’, which is full of rubble, stones and harrows, used in all the walls. The wall is about 3 meters high. Today’s game is about 5-6 meters, but in the original it learns this 10 meters. It has come to this day, but it also erodes the people on this wall. In the 1900s, these zodiac signs were supposedly used. It is more or less in the form of a circle, in which a circle is also played. It is already aimed at dating this material. Some parts of it are earlier than the others… The emperors continued in this way until the 11th century, they tried to continue.”
Built to protect Istanbul
Anastasios Walls were built to rise to the city like the world was built. Saying that “the intention is to protect Istanbul”, Yılmaz continues:
“But the great armies have never been able to stop the wall. Huns, Avars, Bulgarians, Cumans, Pechenegs, the Balkans… All of them, especially nomadic peoples from the Eurasian steppe, thought you might be this small, but he could still guess individually. They have to work with him until the 11th year. But large armies could not stop them.”
It can be seen for equal kilometers in Karacaköy.
There were Anastasios Walls in Aradan district. However, there are still some surviving pieces. Saying, “Istanbul in Turkey, maybe it’s one of the interesting monuments, maybe it’s one of them”, Yılmaz explains the going and coming of the city walls as follows:
“It is not very pleasant. It is used as building material in the future, which will be grown in the 11th remaining in the south. Its stones were poured and applied in nearby villages. The closer we got to the Black Sea coast of Istanbul, the more the wall was preserved in the forests for good planning. We can travel for miles. You can walk several kilometers of this wall in Çatalca, especially in Karacaköy and forest forests.”
Many walls were built in the world for a purpose, such as Anastasios Sur. Few of them are very valuable today… The “Long Wall” is a very important structure in this sense as well. Yılmaz emphasizes the phrase “The most magnificent of such walls you can see here after the Great Wall of China is our Anastasios Walls”.