. Medieval Europe from 395 to 1270. s were expended on these buildings,which are monuments of the emperors ostentatious , pilgrims and mendicants appreciated moreperhaps the inns and hospitals built for them, the con-vents which received them and sent them forward on theirway. The emperor rebuilt, in part, his palace, destroyedby the Nika insurrection. The riches heaped up withinit were surpassed by Theodora, in the superb palace, theHeraion, on the Asiatic shore of the Bosphorus. Jus-tinian multiplied fortifications for the defence of the Em-pire, as had been done before him i
. Medieval Europe from 395 to 1270. s were expended on these buildings,which are monuments of the emperors ostentatious , pilgrims and mendicants appreciated moreperhaps the inns and hospitals built for them, the con-vents which received them and sent them forward on theirway. The emperor rebuilt, in part, his palace, destroyedby the Nika insurrection. The riches heaped up withinit were surpassed by Theodora, in the superb palace, theHeraion, on the Asiatic shore of the Bosphorus. Jus-tinian multiplied fortifications for the defence of the Em-pire, as had been done before him in Dacia, beyond theEhine, and in Brittany. From Belgrade to the Black Sea,all along the Danube, extended a chain of more thaneighty strongholds; six hundred were repaired or builtin Epirus, Thessaly, Macedonia, and Thrace; the passof Thermopylae, the isthmus of Corinth, the Chersonesusof Thrace, were enclosed by intrenchments, and thewall of Anastasius completed. In Asia the passes ofthe Caucasus were guarded, the cities of Armenia. ii
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