A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors. The walls can range from simple...

or historically had, defensive walls. Algiers Ghardaïa Timimoun See List of Egypt castles, forts, fortifications and city walls. Al-Fustat Cairo Damietta...

various types of walls, including border barriers between countries, brick walls, defensive walls in fortifications, and retaining walls that hold back...

structures used in fortifications, such as castles, along with defensive walls such as curtain walls. Castle towers can have a variety of different shapes and...

("strong") and facere ("to make"). From very early history to modern times, defensive walls have often been necessary for cities to survive in an ever-changing...

Shapur II established a defensive system in southern Mesopotamia to prevent raids via land. The defensive line, called the Wall of the Arabs (Middle Persian:...

Defensive walls are a feature of ancient Roman architecture. The Romans generally fortified cities, rather than building stand-alone fortresses, but there...

Operation Defensive Shield (Hebrew: מִבְצָע חוֹמַת מָגֵן Mīvtzāh Ḥōmat Māgēn) was a 2002 Israeli military operation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank...

Chinese city walls (traditional Chinese: 城牆; simplified Chinese: 城墙; pinyin: chéngqiáng; lit. 'city wall') refer to defensive walls built to protect important...

curtain wall is a defensive wall between fortified towers or bastions of a castle, fortress, or town. Evidence for curtain walls or a series of walls surrounding...

one of the New 7 Wonders of the World in 2007. Today, the defensive system of the Great Wall is recognized as one of the most impressive architectural...

Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Vallum Hadriani, also known as the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Aelium in Latin) is a former defensive fortification of the...

list of notable fortified structures. For city walls in particular, see List of cities with defensive walls. Fossatum Africae Sungbo's Eredo, built during...

trunks or wooden or iron stakes used as a fence for enclosure or as a defensive wall. Palisades can form a stockade. Palisade derives from pale, from the...

A defensive fighting position is a type of earthwork constructed in a military context, generally large enough to accommodate anything from one soldier...

The London Wall is a defensive wall first built by the Romans around the strategically important port town of Londinium in c. AD 200, as well as the name...

Kremlin Wall is a defensive wall that surrounds the Moscow Kremlin, recognisable by the characteristic notches and its Kremlin towers. The original walls were...

The Servian Wall (Latin: Murus Servii Tullii; Italian: Mura Serviane) is an ancient Roman defensive barrier constructed around the city of Rome in the...

fortification architecture, a rampart is a length of embankment or wall forming part of the defensive boundary of a castle, hillfort, settlement or other fortified...

between a parapet or defensive wall and an adjacent steep-walled ditch or moat. It was intended to reduce soil pressure on the walls of the excavated part...

The Hexamilion wall (Greek: Εξαμίλιον τείχος, "six-mile wall") was a defensive wall constructed across the Isthmus of Corinth, guarding the only land route...

was heavily fortified with a defensive wall. Some Mongol ships came ashore but were unable to make it past the defensive wall and were driven off by volleys...

it served two defensive purposes. It made approaching the curtain wall of the castle more difficult and the undermining of the wall virtually impossible...

nomenclature uses the term "barbican" ("barbacã") for any wall outside of and lower than the main defensive wall that forms a second barrier. The barrier may be...

which defenders could target attackers who had reached the base of the defensive wall. A smaller related structure that only protects key points of a fortification...

enclosure of palisades and tall walls, made of logs placed side by side vertically, with the tops sharpened as a defensive wall. Stockade is derived from the...

is the defensive core. In a fortification with bastions, the citadel is the strongest part of the system, sometimes well inside the outer walls and bastions...

by a set of defensive walls, city gates, bridges, forts, towers, bastions, hornworks, moats, tunnels, and ravelins, among other defensive elements. It...

cities in the world, and it is also the city with the oldest known defensive wall. Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of more than 20 successive...

The Walls of Ávila, completed between the 11th and 14th centuries, are the defensive walls of Ávila, Spain, and its principal historic feature. These medieval...