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...

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

("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...

control of immigration and emigration. Furthermore, the defensive characteristics of the Great Wall were enhanced by the construction of watchtowers, troop...

kinds of walls, including: Border barriers between countries Brick walls Defensive walls in fortifications Permanent, solid fences Retaining walls, which...

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

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:...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Afterwards the walls, however, were extended and reinforced (a permit from Leszek Biały to encircle the city with high defensive walls was granted in...

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

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

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

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...

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

Ancient Kano City Walls (Hausa: Ganuwa) were ancient defensive walls built to protect the inhabitants of the ancient city of Kano. The wall was initially...

(known as a breastwork when temporary) is a wall of stone, wood or earth on the outer edge of a defensive wall or trench, which shelters the defenders. In...

The defensive walls of Łęczyca are walls constructed around the small, but once strategically important Polish town of Łęczyca. They were built by Kazimierz...

These moats were complemented by a defensive wall constructed of limestone blocks. Together, the moats and walls constituted defenses. The British punitive...

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...

The Seoul City Wall (Korean: 서울 성곽) or Hanyangdoseong (Korean: 한양도성; Hanja: 漢陽都城) is a defensive wall first built by the King Taejo of Joseon dynasty to...

abandoned and to the degree of haste at which it was abandoned (see: Defensive Walls). Ek' Balam is mentioned in a late-sixteenth-century Relación Geográfica...

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

The Hunger Wall (Czech: Hladová zeď) is a medieval defensive wall of the Lesser Town of Prague, today's Czech Republic. It was built on Petřín Hill between...

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...