Indeed, in the words of the "Cambridge Ancient History", they were "perhaps the most successful and influential city walls ever built – they allowed the city and its emperors to survive and thrive for more than a millennium, against all strategic logic, on the edge of extremely unstable and dangerous world...".
==== Kasnejša zgodovina ====Teodozijevo obzidje je brez dvoma spadalo med najpomembnejše poznoantične obrambne sisteme.