Byzantine cities gradually began to move away from coastal locations to fortified, interior positions: a fortified city shown in a detail of an 11th century manuscript.
Sinai, Monastery of St Catherine cod. 3, fol. 7a.
Galabaris, G., Helleniki Techni: Zographiki byzantinon cheirographon, Ekdotike Athenon S.A., Athens 1995, p. 110, ill. 105.
© Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai