A fortified gateway is an element of a variety of fortified structures, such as a castle or walled town. Fortified gates or gateways appear in the Bronze...
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A barbican (from Old French: barbacane) is a fortified outpost or fortified gateway, such as at an outer defense perimeter of a city or castle, or any...
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A gatehouse is a type of fortified gateway, an entry control point building, enclosing or accompanying a gateway for a town, religious house, castle,...
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A fortified house or fortified mansion is a type of building which developed in Europe during the Middle Ages, generally with significant fortifications...
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A fortified tower (also defensive tower or castle tower or, in context, just tower) is one of the defensive structures used in fortifications, such as...
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a gate which is, or was, set within a city wall. It is a type of fortified gateway. City gates were traditionally built to provide a point of controlled...
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defensive stone towers. Besides the towers, there are still some fortified gateways (torresotti) that correspond to the gates of the 12th-century city...
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A murder hole or meurtrière is a hole in the ceiling of a gateway or passageway in a fortification through which the defenders could shoot, throw or pour...
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Defensive wall (redirect from Fortified town)
The countless small fortified towns in the Franconia region were also preserved as a consequence of this edict. Walls and fortified wall structures were...
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Defense line Fortified estate Fortifications Forts Military installations Walls Related word Castle town Château Dungeon Festung Fortified gateway Gatekeeper...
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metal, which slides down grooves inset within each jamb of the gateway. Portcullises fortified the entrances to many medieval castles, securely closing them...
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ancient bridge of two arches crosses the river at Warkworth, with a fortified gateway on the road mounting to the castle, the site of which is surrounded...
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in plural ksour or qsour (Arabic: قصور, romanized: qṣur), is a type of fortified village in North Africa, usually found in the regions predominantly or...
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destroy fortifications such as defensive walls, castles, bunkers and fortified gateways. Petrary is the generic term for medieval stone throwing siege engines...
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Defense line Fortified estate Fortifications Forts Military installations Walls Related word Castle town Château Dungeon Festung Fortified gateway Gatekeeper...
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Defense line Fortified estate Fortifications Forts Military installations Walls Related word Castle town Château Dungeon Festung Fortified gateway Gatekeeper...
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November 2022, the Russians were seen by Ukrainian journalists to have fortified the region around Melitopol with dragon's teeth lines. At least one journalist...
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might be designed and built with battlements, or a manor house might be fortified by adding battlements, where no parapet previously existed, or cutting...
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Defense line Fortified estate Fortifications Forts Military installations Walls Related word Castle town Château Dungeon Festung Fortified gateway Gatekeeper...
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operating base consists of a ring of barbed wire around a position with a fortified entry control point, or ECP. An ECP is a controlled entry and exit point...
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Defense line Fortified estate Fortifications Forts Military installations Walls Related word Castle town Château Dungeon Festung Fortified gateway Gatekeeper...
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Defense line Fortified estate Fortifications Forts Military installations Walls Related word Castle town Château Dungeon Festung Fortified gateway Gatekeeper...
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Fortification (redirect from Fortified)
oldest known fortified settlements, as well as the northernmost Stone Age fort. In Bulgaria, near the town of Provadia a walled fortified settlement today...
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Defense line Fortified estate Fortifications Forts Military installations Walls Related word Castle town Château Dungeon Festung Fortified gateway Gatekeeper...
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the former city boundary. At this point stood the Netherbow Port, a fortified gateway between Edinburgh and the Canongate (until 1856 a separate burgh)...
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Manor house (redirect from Fortified manor)
formerly house the landed gentry. Manor houses were sometimes fortified, albeit not as fortified as castles, but this was often more for show than for defence...
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Defense line Fortified estate Fortifications Forts Military installations Walls Related word Castle town Château Dungeon Festung Fortified gateway Gatekeeper...
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parapet Fortified church in Saint-Angel, Corrèze, France. Prejmer fortified church, Romania Biertan fortified church, Romania Moşna fortified church,...
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to a castrum-curia model, where the castle was built with a fortified bailey and a fortified mound, somewhat smaller than the typical motte. By the 12th...
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