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The Blaauboschkraal stone ruins are a provincial heritage site in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa.Its neighbouring town, Emgwenya, is 10 kilometres away.The site was declared a national monument on 18 April 1975 [2] and is a heritage site recognised by the South African Heritage Resources Agency.
Intramuros walls near Puerta Real. The stone outline of the defensive wall of Intramuros is irregular in shape, following the contours of Manila Bay and the curvature of the Pasig River. The Muralla walls covered an area of 64 hectares (160 acres) of land, surrounded by 8 feet (2.4 m) thick stones and high walls that rise to 22 feet (6.7 m).
Fossatum Africae ("African ditch") is one or more linear defensive structures (sometimes called limes) claimed to extend over 750 km (470 mi) or more [1] in northern Africa constructed during the Roman Empire to defend and control the southern borders of the Empire in Africa. It is considered to be part of the greater frontier system in Roman ...
In studies of Classical Greece, the term intramural refers to burials that took place within the walls of a city-state. In cases where a city lacked walls, the term intracommunal burial is sometimes used. [16] In most of Greece, the practice of intracommunal burial was largely abolished by the end of the Geometric period (that is, by c. 700 BC).
The layout of the city was haphazardly planned during this era as a set of communities surrounding the fortified walls of Intramuros (within the walls), which was the original Manila. Intramuros, one of the oldest walled cities in the Far East , was constructed and designed by Spanish Jesuit missionaries to provide protection from invading ...
About 180 million years ago, a mantle plume under southern Gondwana caused bulging of the continental crust in the area that would later become southern Africa. [2] Within 10–20 million years, rift valleys formed on either side of the central bulge and flooded to become the proto-Atlantic Ocean and proto-Indian Ocean more or less along the present southern African coastline and separating ...
President Diosdado Macapagal in the early 1960s pledged for the restoration of Intramuros' walls including the reconstruction of the Manila Aquarium. [3] The Manila Aquarium was re-established by the Zonta Club in 1968. [1] The aquarium was closed in the 1980s. [4] It opened again briefly as the Acuario de Manila. [5] [better source needed]
Volkskas Beperk (English: Peoples' Bank) was a South African bank founded in 1934 as a cooperative loan bank, becoming a commercial bank in 1941. [1] In 1991, by which time it had become South Africa's largest Afrikaner bank, Volkskas merged with United Building Society, Allied Building Society and Trust Bank to form Amalgamated Banks of South Africa.