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that its name was "Juna" — old. The woodcutter returned by the way he had come to
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The entrance is beyond the town in the east wall, and consists of three gateways, one inside the other. The fort walls are from 60 to 70 feet high, forming a massive cluster of buildings. The inner gateway, a beautiful specimen of the
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rediscovered an ancient stronghold or else after he had built the fort, it was abandoned and afterwards found again by a later ruler
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