City Wall and Moat
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wall and moat were built atop the Phoenician cemetery, and cut across the ruins of the Phoenico-Persian, Hellenistic and Roman residences. The wall was built around the 9th century and dismantled at the beginning of the 20th century. Souk Al-Jamil was built over the backfilled moat. In the late 19th century, the city wall and its moat lost their strategic significance.