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  2. List of cities with defensive walls - Wikipedia

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    Of the second wall, only the ground floor of a watchtower and the base of a watergate over the Dijle river still stand. The second wall was changed into a park in the 19th century, this park was largely destroyed and replaced by a ring road in the 20th century. Liège: Liège One or more individual structures (Bastions, gates, towers, etc.) remain.

  3. Rust (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Rust features crafting, though initially limited until the discovery of specific items in the game's open world. To stay protected, players must build bases or join clans to improve their chance of survival. Raiding is a major aspect of Rust. Rust supports modded servers which can add additional content.

  4. Compound (fortification) - Wikipedia

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    Swedish sign for an officially designated secure compound. In military science, a compound is a type of fortification made up of walls or fences surrounding several buildings in the center of a large piece of land.

  5. Fortification - Wikipedia

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    John Smith's 1624 map of Bermuda with the first stone fortifications built by England in the New World. The founding of urban centers was an important means of territorial expansion and many cities, especially in eastern Europe, were founded precisely for this purpose during the period of Ostsiedlung. These cities are easy to recognize due to ...

  6. Rust (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    Cloudflare, a company providing content delivery network services, used Rust to build a new web proxy named Pingora for increased performance and efficiency. [169] The npm package manager used Rust for its production authentication service in 2019. [170] [171] [172] The Rust for Linux project has been supported in the Linux kernel since 2022.

  7. List of city-building video games - Wikipedia

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    Year Game Developer Setting Platform Notes 1964: The Sumerian Game: Mabel Addis: Historical: MAIN: Text-based game based on the ancient Sumerian city of Lagash. [1]1969: The Sumer Game

  8. Defensive wall - Wikipedia

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    Ming prefectural and provincial capital walls were 10 to 20 metres (33 to 66 ft) thick at the base and 5 to 10 metres (16 to 33 ft) at the top. In Europe the height of wall construction was reached under the Roman Empire , whose walls often reached 10 metres (33 ft) in height, the same as many Chinese city walls, but were only 1.5 to 2.5 metres ...

  9. Fortifications of Portsmouth - Wikipedia

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    1797 Ordnance Survey map, showing fortifications around Portsmouth and Portsea, fortified Gosport to the west, Hilsea Lines to the north, Fort Cumberland to the east. In the 18th century, Portsea started to grow up around the dockyard and in the 1770s a series of ramparts and moats were constructed to protect this new settlement.