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fortification of Rome
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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Mar 21, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Jul 13, 2023
	Invalidated site: Defending The Faith - Christ's Faithful People - Biography of St. Leo IV.	Thinley Kalsang Bhutia	Jan 03, 2018
	Added new Web site: Defending The Faith - Christ's Faithful People - Biography of St. Leo IV.	Veenu Setia	May 11, 2009
	Added new Web site: LookLex Encyclopaedia - Biography of Leo IV.	Veenu Setia	May 11, 2009
	Added new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Pope St. Leo IV.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 18, 2007
	Article revised and updated.	Amy Tikkanen	Oct 26, 2006
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998