The coastal fortifications and harbours of Rhodes town
Abstract
The sea-fortifications of the town of Rhodes during the Hospitaller period followed the needs of the population for strengthened security, the evolutionary processes in that field and the city's gradual expansion each time to fully enclose the parts that had developed by then. In that regard the stronghold and tower of St. Nicholas was built to protect the harbour of Mandraki, the tower of Naillac with its sub-fortifications to control and overlook the area stretching up to the mole of the Mills where asimilar in strength and tower was monitoring the area. The harbour was protected with an iron chain which could block the entry. Finally, the powerful fortifications of the east side of the mole of the Mills were the last extended defence line of the town from the sea.
Middle/Late Byzantine period; harbour; fortifications; tower of Naillac; mole of the Mills; stronghold of St. Nicholas; Rhodes
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ΜΑΝΟΥΣΟΥ-ΝΤΕΛΛΑ Κ. (2011). The coastal fortifications and harbours of Rhodes town. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 30, 67–80. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.637
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