What a wonderful article, really brings some of the buildings to life in the writing.
“A wooden palisade is known to have existed on the hill in the 6th century AD, and in medieval times a Romanesque stone fort.”
That is interesting. A lot of the great European cities started off as over night camps for Roman Legions and over time became permanent garrisoned forts. Then artisans, merchants and others came to settle around the forts. I didn’t know the Legions made it that far on a permanent basis. Due to the date I would assume they came from the Eastern half of the Empire.
Alas, not Roman, merely Romanesque. :’)
Roman Empire:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Roman_Empire_Territories.png
Hi-res RE map:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/roman_empire_395.jpg
Byzantine Empire:
http://www.thoughtline.com/byznet/all.htm
