Wall of Media

earthwork · 330 BC – 2100 AD

The Wall of Media, also known as Mēdías teîchos or the Wall of Semiramis, at Habl as-Sahr is mentioned by Xenophon in the Anabasis as a defensive ditch at the Euphrates built on the orders of Artaxerxes in the fifth century BC.

Coordinates

33.12160, 44.26980

Also known as

Medias kaloumenon teichos (to) (grc), Semirámidos diateíchisma (grc), Μηδίας καλούμενον τεῖχος (τό) (grc), Σεμιράμιδος διατείχισμα (grc), حبل الصخر (ar), Ḥabl al-Ṣakhar (ar)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

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