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TIL about the Frankish Tower on the Acropolis of Athens, built in Medieval Greece and demolished by Heinrich Schliemann, the German national who later found (and badly damaged) the Site of Troy, who wanted any post-Classical buildings "cleaned-up" from the Acropolis

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