A bent or indirect entrance is a defensive feature in medieval fortification. In a castle with a bent entrance, the gate passage is narrow and turns sharply...

The Bent Pyramid is an ancient Egyptian pyramid located at the royal necropolis of Dahshur, approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of Cairo, built under...

beginning of Ottoman eras. These features on floor plan levels are: Bent entrance Inner courtyard Space for men "Salamlik" includes: Reception hall "Qa'a"...

outer entrance to the citadel is via a climbing passage that passes through multiple gates and doubles back on itself twice (known as a "bent entrance"),...

took for someone to reach the outer enclosure. It is rare for this bent entrance to be found in Europe. One of the effects of the Livonian Crusade in...

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residential quarters. The entrance of the complex featured a grand tower that led into a sophisticated double bent entrance. After passing through several...

and had a bent entrance by which one entered from the north and exited to the west. Today, however, the gate has lost its bastions and its bent passage...

surrounding wall. In Morocco, gates were typically designed with a bent entrance. They ranged from very plain in appearance to highly monumental and...

Bent's Old Fort is a fort located in Otero County in southeastern Colorado, United States. A company owned by Charles Bent and William Bent and Ceran...

hairpin turn halfway along its length, making it an example of a bent entrance. Bent entrances were a Byzantine innovation, but that at Krak des Chevaliers...

engines. Also, the gate and posterns are typically strengthened using a bent entrance or flanking towers. Concentric castles were expensive to build, so that...

led to an imposing bent entrance complex. Would-be assailants to the castle would have to take over six turns up a vaulted entrance ramp, over which were...

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below. Like other gateways in Ayyubid military architecture, it had a bent entrance. Today, the inside of the gate's dome-vault is covered in plaster with...

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it as a museum for visitors. The original entrance to the tower is raised above ground but a new entrance has been constructed at ground level. The other...

if any, large windows on the outside. The entrance, which led to the courtyard, was typically a bent entrance that prevented outsiders in the street from...

(Puerta Norte in Spanish). It had a bent entrance layout and was defended by a tower. Today it acts as the main entrance to the site for visitors and tourists...

believed to have best preserved its original Almoravid layout. It has a bent entrance configuration, of which variations are found throughout the medieval...

castle with many typical elements of a concentric castle. It has a bent entrance leading through the base of a gate tower. A notable feature of the inner...

("Courtyard Palace"). The building was entered from the south via a bent entrance (a passage turning 90 degrees twice), a feature which became common...

ballad. "Hell Bent for Leather" reflected their newly adopted leather costumes as well as Rob Halford's soon-to-be-trademark entrances on stage riding...

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From the gate in the outer courtyard, the mausoleum is reached via a bent entrance leading to a corridor that is open to the sky in the middle and flanked...

preserves the Marinid defensive features such as a bent entrance, was formerly the western entrance to Fes el-Jdid and to the Royal Palace, but it was...

usually built by the Royal Engineers in a local woodland, with a camouflaged entrance and emergency escape tunnel. It is thought that 400 to 500 such OBs were...

studied and restored. It has a complex defensive layout including a bent entrance and a bridge over a moat or ditch. Initially identified as Bab al-Barqiyya...

have best preserved its original Almoravid layout. It has a classic bent entrance configuration, of which variations are found throughout the medieval...

entrance gates: one in the north and one in the south/southeast. The more important southern gate consists of a straight passage (instead of the bent...