• The following cities have, or historically had, defensive walls. Algiers Ghardaïa Timimoun Al-Fustat Cairo Damietta See List of Egypt castles, forts,...
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    See List of fortifications for a list of notable fortified structures. For city walls in particular, see List of cities with defensive walls. Fossatum...
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    Roman walls, Galicia, Spain, a UNESCO World Heritage Site Archaeological Erbil Citadel wall List of cities with defensive walls List of town walls in England...
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    (UK) on July 8, 2019. Ston Walls of Dubrovnik List of cities with defensive walls List of castles in Croatia Tentative list of World Heritage Sites in Croatia...
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    Chester city walls consist of a defensive structure built to protect the city of Chester in Cheshire, England. Their construction was started by the Romans...
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    This list of town walls in England and Wales describes the fortified walls built and maintained around these towns and cities from the 1st century AD onwards...
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    The Walls of Dubrovnik (Croatian: Dubrovačke gradske zidine) are a series of defensive stone walls surrounding the city of Dubrovnik in southern Croatia...
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    Chinese city walls (traditional Chinese: 城牆; simplified Chinese: 城墙; pinyin: chéngqiáng; "city wall") refer to defensive walls built to protect important...
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    Presidio Rocca (fortification) List of cities with defensive walls List of forts Caves, R. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge. p. 83. Thapar,...
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    Defensive walls are a feature of ancient Roman architecture. The Romans generally fortified cities, rather than building stand-alone fortresses, but there...
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  • (Lombardy), Italy Egypt List of buildings List of castles List of forts List of walls List of cities with defensive walls List of established military terms...
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    List of cities with defensive walls List of town walls in England and Wales Scheduled monuments in Greater London "History of London Wall". English Heritage...
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    history of Jerusalem Gates of the Temple Mount History of Jerusalem List of cities with defensive walls List of places in Jerusalem Walls of Jerusalem...
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    Demilitarised zone Defensive walls List of cities with defensive walls List of fortifications List of walls Second Amendment sanctuary Trump wall Fences in Rio...
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    Naukograd (literally science city) Nuclear Cities Initiative Propiska in the Soviet Union List of cities with defensive walls Sergeeva, Kristina. "Mailbox44"...
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    1980s. List of cities with defensive walls "Porte Saint-Jean". Quebec City Tourism. 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021. "Porte Saint-Jean". Quebec City Tourism...
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    Walls of Old San Juan (Spanish: Murallas del Viejo San Juan) is a defensive city wall that surrounds the western end of the San Juan Islet, site of the...
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  • Closed city List of cities with defensive walls Loren Collingwood, Benjamin Gonzalez-O'Brien & Stephen El-Khatib Oct (October 3, 2016). "Sanctuary cities do...
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    (disambiguation) List of buildings List of fortifications List of castles List of forts List of walls List of cities with defensive walls List of established...
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    The Walls of Tallinn are the medieval defensive walls constructed around the city of Tallinn in Estonia. The first wall around Tallinn was ordered to...
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    walls Defensive walls in fortifications Permanent, solid fences Retaining walls, which hold back dirt, stone, water, or noise sound Stone walls Walls...
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    into the city defenses for strategic reasons, and this almost doubled the area the walls would encompass. In addition to the surviving walls of stone and...
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    The Walls of Constantinople (Turkish: Konstantinopolis Surları; Greek: Τείχη της Κωνσταντινουπόλης) are a series of defensive stone walls that have surrounded...
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    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...
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    media related to Military compounds. List of cities with defensive walls Border barrier Separation barrier Closed city Stockade Boma (enclosure) Compound...
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    version of the walled city, complete with tortured souls from which the protagonist must flee. The 2016 TVB martial arts drama A Fist Within Four Walls takes...
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    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...
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    by walls of one form or another. To this day, substantial portions of the walls remain, and York has more miles of intact wall than any other city in...
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    The Walls of Nicosia, also known as the Venetian Walls, are a series of defensive walls which surround Nicosia, the capital city of Cyprus. The first...
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    historical ones Border barrier Defensive walls List of fortifications List of walls List of cities with defensive walls Pest-exclusion fence Buffer zone...
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