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Rambitan is a traditional type of Sasak village with thatch-and-bamboo houses and tall rice barns, but it sees a lot of visitors, and you may well be besieged by souvenir sellers.
It was a formidable redoubt, with tunnels for 3,000 besieged defenders, and was never taken by enemies.
Following the death of the Prophet Mohammed in 632, Arab armies, united under Islam, poured out of their homeland, and soon took Egypt, Syria, and Palestine from the Byzantines; Constantinople was besieged from 674 to 678, but survived because of its defences.
An admiring article on Israel's new Labor leader, Ehud Barak, speculates that the besieged Likud government is headed for more trouble and may turn to Barak for support.
The familiar story of the Trojan horse appears in Virgil's Aeneid : The horse, with armed men hidden inside, is presented by the Greek enemy to the besieged city of Troy, and brought within its walls.