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He had the city razed to the ground, but soon saw the advantages of its strategic location, and began a programme of enlarging and strengthening the old defensive walls.
Old photographs show some of the Arab gateways that were destroyed when the city walls were razed in 1902.
First, the earthquake of 1923 and subsequent fire razed nearly all vestiges of old Edo, killing some 140,000 people in the process.
The Jin capital was in turn completely razed by a fresh batch of northern nomadic usurpers.
Work on the cathedral, the largest Gothic church in the world and the third largest of its kind — only St. Peter’s in Rome and St. Paul’s in London are bigger — began in 1401 after the great mosque was razed.