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Cisterns were crucial for the survival of Constantinople because of inadequate resources of freshwater and because the Byzantines needed sufficient water supply within the city walls during summers and sieges. Water was stored in innumerable private and large public cisterns. With more than 100 public cisterns, both open and covered, and a yearly capacity of approximately 1000000 m3, no ancient city can equal Constantinople in number and size of cisterns. |
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