Template:Did you know nominations/Frankish Tower (Acropolis of Athens) (2nd nomination)

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... that the Frankish Tower on the Acropolis of Athens was used as a beacon, a salt-store and a prison?

Source: Miller (1908). The Latins in the Levant. London: John Murray. pp. 401–402. OCLC 1157183453. (beacon); Giochalas, Thanasis; Kafetzaki, Tonia (2013). Αθήνα. Ιχνηλατώντας την πόλη με οδηγό την ιστορία και τη λογοτεχνία [Athens. Tracing the city through History and Literature] (in Greek). Athens: Estia. p. 130. ISBN 978-960-05-1559-6. (salt-store/prison)

ALT1: ... that the Frankish Tower was probably built by Italians? Source: Lock, Peter (1987). "The Frankish Tower on the Acropolis, Athens: The Photographs of William J. Stillman". The Annual of the British School at Athens. 82: 131–133. doi:10.1017/S0068245400020384. JSTOR 30103084. S2CID 163963456.
ALT2: ... that a Greek academic compared the Frankish Tower in Athens with "the droppings of birds of prey"? Source: Hamilakis, Yannis (2007). The Nation and Its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in Greece. Oxford University Press. pp. 92–93. ISBN 978-0-19-923038-9.; St. Clair, William (2022). Who Saved the Parthenon? A New History of the Acropolis Before, During and After the Greek Revolution (PDF). Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. p. 494. doi:10.11647/OBP.0136. ISBN 978-1-78374-461-9. S2CID 248842303. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-05-27. Retrieved 2023-01-07.
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Improved to Good Article status by UndercoverClassicist (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 30 past nominations.

Comment: 2nd nomination, per new DYK rules: 1st run was in 2014. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 11:42, 31 December 2024 (UTC).