Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Caliphate City of Medina Azahara' has mentioned 'Wall' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| The whole city was surrounded by a fortified wall with towers. | WIKI |
| [15] However, there is evidence that only the palaces were protected by a wall at first and that the outer city wall was added after residential areas had already begun to develop outside the palace. | WIKI |
| Next is the city proper, with housing, crafts, and the great mosque of the two lower terraces separated by another wall in order to isolate the upper palace complex. | WIKI |
| [47] Its perimeter was protected by a thick stone wall with square bastions. | WIKI |
| [3] The highest point of the city was at the centre of its northern wall (near the palaces), which is 215 meters above sea level, while the lowest point, to the south and nearer to the river, is 70 meters lower. | WIKI |
| The city's lower level was much larger than the Alcazar area and occupied most of the space within the perimeter wall. | WIKI |
| [52] Aside from the North Gate which led to the palaces, at least two other gates in the city's outer wall are known: the Bab al-Qubba ("Gate of the Dome") in the middle of the southern wall and the Bab al-Shams ("Gate of the Sun") in the eastern wall. | WIKI |
| It could be reached from the palaces via a covered ramp passage in the eastern wall of the Upper Garden's terrace. | WIKI |
| [57] The middle nave, in front of what would have been the mihrab (wall niche symbolizing the direction of prayer), was wider than the other four naves of the mosque. | WIKI |
| [67] Its northern side is occupied by the broad entrance faxc3xa7ade of the main hall, its western and eastern sides were occupied by narrow porticos, and its southern side was closed by a simple wall. | WIKI |
| During official receptions, the caliph likely sat in the middle of the back wall of the central chamber. | WIKI |
| [70] Felix Arnold, in a slightly different interpretation, suggests that visitors entered the building from the sides and then entered the central chamber by moving from the outermost chambers to the central one, with each wall of doors and archways acting as a "screen" through which they passed closer to the caliph. | WIKI |
| The exterior faxc3xa7ade of the building, which faced south over the edge of the terrace wall, had three decorated doorways as well as a blind arcade of false windows above. | WIKI |
| The back wall is marked with three decorative blind arches. | WIKI |
| During audiences the caliph sat at the middle of the back wall, in front of the central blind arch. | WIKI |
| [92] The dimensions of the central hall conform to that of an equilateral triangle whose summit is placed at the center of the back wall and whose base corresponds to the total width of the hall. | WIKI |
| The latter was reached via a covered path along the terrace wall, and to the south is another large unexcavated garden. | WIKI |
| [69] The eastern wall of the terrace is aligned with the portico of Bab al-Sudda while its north and south borders are aligned with those of the older Lower Garden to the east. | WIKI |
| At the middle of the garden's eastern edge, along the wall of the Upper Garden, was a rectangular buttress that is much larger than the other buttresses along the Upper Garden wall. | WIKI |
| [109] The extensive arabesque decoration, carved in relief across many wall surfaces, demonstrate historic influences from Sassanian and Abbasid Iraq, both also notable differences in its details. | WIKI |