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• - Photographs of two magnificent Byzantine churches in Ravenna: St. Apollinare in Classe (530-549) and San Vitale (526-547) from Leo Masuda's History of Western Architecture.
  
• - Background information and photographs of the Haghia Sophia and other monuments if Constantinople, for 1000 years the capital of the Hellenic (Greek) Empire of Byzantium.
  
• - A non-profit project creating computer reconstructions of the Byzantine monuments of Constantinople (now Istanbul) as they stood in 1200 AD.
  
• - Photographs of the defences of the Topkapi Palace, the Sea walls, the Yedikule Fortress and parts of the Theodosian Land walls by Stephen Francis Wyley.
  
• - San Jose State University provides an extensive gallery of expandable photographs, accessed by pull-down menu and selection from an array. Basic information given for each.