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p.19 The situation changed in the first great siege of Constantinople in 626. Threatened from the east by the Sassanians, a large Avar army besieged the city from the Thracian hinterland and Theophanes reports that the aqueduct of Valens was cut, not to be restored until the reign of Constantine V in 766.
See section: '626-765: The Dry Years?'
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