Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Anjar' has mentioned 'City' in the following places:
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[citation needed] Although earlier materials were re-used, much of the city is built on virgin soil. | WIKI |
The city ruins cover 114,000 square meters and are surrounded by large, fortified stone walls over two meters thick and seven meters high. | WIKI |
The rectangular city design of 370 m by 310 m is based on Roman city planning and architecture with stonework borrowed from the Byzantines. | WIKI |
Two large avenues, the Cardo maximum, running north to south, and the Decumanus Maximus, running east to west, divide the city into four quadrants. | WIKI |
Smaller streets subdivide the western half of the city in quarters of different size. | WIKI |
The site of this ancient city was only discovered by archaeologists at the end of the 1940s. | UNESCO |
Excavations revealed a fortified city surrounded by walls and flanked by forty towers, a rectangular area (385 x 350 m). | UNESCO |
Dominated by gates flanked by porticos, an important North-South axis and a lesser East-West axis, superposed above the main collectors for sewers, divide the city into four equal quadrants. | UNESCO |
In 744, Caliph Ibrahim, son of Walid, was defeated and afterwards the partially destroyed city was abandoned. | UNESCO |
The surrounding walls of Anjar incorporate all the features of town planning and the monuments that characterise the Umayyad city. | UNESCO |
Despite major restoration and reconstruction works, the different monuments comprising the Umayyad city of Anjar clearly demonstrate their functions and relations, and the overall plan of the city can easily be identified. | UNESCO |