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South cistern

Huge cistern is arranged here in a natural cave. It's walls are plastered, the floor is leveled, the ceiling is left intact. There are several water cisterns of 30 thousand cubic meters volume inside the perimeter of the fortress walls. Commonly it believed that the garrison of 1000 men could endure under siege from one rainy season to another with a margin of only 8000 cubic meters of water ...

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