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Page 255
... town and surmounted by 18 medieval towers . Four additional towers , massive and square , fortify the town gates . Carved stone foun- tains and half - timbered houses as much as six stories high appear hardly altered in three centuries ...
... town and surmounted by 18 medieval towers . Four additional towers , massive and square , fortify the town gates . Carved stone foun- tains and half - timbered houses as much as six stories high appear hardly altered in three centuries ...
Page 256
... town gate still shelters a picture of a severed hand with dripping blood , as a warning to itinerant evildoers . The town's growing wealth was reflected in a new ring of walls and , within it , increas- ingly impressive buildings ...
... town gate still shelters a picture of a severed hand with dripping blood , as a warning to itinerant evildoers . The town's growing wealth was reflected in a new ring of walls and , within it , increas- ingly impressive buildings ...
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... town below . Here stood one of the important towns of Virginia a century ago , a flourishing , pros- perous community , the meeting point of roads , railroads , and a canal . Now the canal is a tree - grown ditch and the town a fraction ...
... town below . Here stood one of the important towns of Virginia a century ago , a flourishing , pros- perous community , the meeting point of roads , railroads , and a canal . Now the canal is a tree - grown ditch and the town a fraction ...
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Viking settlers | xlvii |
Shuqra Aden Protectorate | 211 |
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