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Uruk in ancient Sumer (Mesopotamia) is one of the world's oldest known walled cities. The Ancient Egyptians also built fortresses on the frontiers of the Nile Valley to protect against invaders from adjacent territories, as well as circle-shaped mud brick walls around their cities. Many of the fortifications of the ancient world were built with ...
Babylon Fortress in Old Cairo. Baggush Box; Bar Lev Line; Beijing city fortifications; British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War. British hardened field defences of World War II; Castle of Bouka, Preveza, Greece; Brimstone Hill Fortress, Saint Thomas Middle Island, Saint Kitts and Nevis; Cairo Citadel, Egypt; Castle Islands ...
Markeli Roman fortress, Karnobat; Oescus Roman fortress, Gigen; Pliska capital city castle and fortress; Plovdiv fortifications and walls - Eastern gate of Philippopolis, Hisar Kapia and Nebet Tepe; Preslav capital city castle and fortress; Nesebar town fortress; Nicopolis ad Istrum Roman fortress and town, Nikyup, Veliko Tarnovo
A 17th-century plan of the fortress town of Coevorden in the Netherlands Map of Palmanova in 1593. The town is encircled by massive Venetian defensive systems that are a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 9 July 2017. [1] This is a list of bastion forts.
It is included in a World Heritage Site Historic Cairo. [1] Qaitbay Citadel in Alexandria is one of the well preserved Egyptian castles. Many buildings in Egypt can be put under the classification of castles, citadels, forts, and fortifications.
Sigiriya consists of an ancient citadel built by King Kashyapa during the 5th century. The Sigiriya site contains the ruins of an upper palace located on the flat top of the rock, a mid-level terrace that includes the Lion Gate and the mirror wall with its frescoes, the lower palaces clings to the slopes below the rocks.
Masada (Hebrew: מְצָדָה məṣādā, 'fortress'; Arabic: جبل مسعدة) [1] is an ancient fortification in southern Israel, situated on top of an isolated rock plateau, akin to a mesa. It is located on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea 20 km (12 miles) east of Arad.
The ancient city of Troy was famous for its defensive walls. There is archaeological evidence that Troy VII , generally identified as the stage of the legendary Trojan War of Homer 's Iliad , usually dated between 1194 BC – 1184 BC, had walls with a carefully built stone base over four meters thick and some nine meters high in places, which ...