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The Heptapyrgio fortress (also called Yedi Kule) in Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece. #271781488
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The Heptapyrgion, modern Eptapyrgio, also popularly known by its Ottoman Turkish name Yedi Kule, is a Byzantine and Ottoman-era fortress situated on the north-eastern corner of the Acropolis of Thessaloniki in Greece. Despite its name, which in both languages means `Fortress of Seven Towers`, it features ten, and was probably named after the Yedikule Fortress in Constantinople.