A bastion is a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification, most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the corners of...
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Halászbástya (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈhɒlaːzbaːʃcɒ]) or Fisherman's Bastion is one of the best known historical monuments in Budapest, located near...
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Look up bastion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A bastion is a fortification work projecting outward from the main enclosure. Bastion may also refer...
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A bastion fort or trace italienne (a phrase derived from non-standard French, literally meaning 'Italian outline') is a fortification in a style that...
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bastion host is a special-purpose computer on a network specifically designed and configured to withstand attacks, so named by analogy to the bastion...
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Bastion is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by Scott Lobdell and Pascual Ferry,...
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The Middelburg Bastion (Dutch: Bastion Middelburgh) was one of nine bastions of A Famosa, in Malacca City, Malacca, Malaysia located at the mouth of Malacca...
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Kochi "Bastion Bunglow, Famous Bastion Bunglow, Bastion Bunglow of Kerala, Bastion Bunglow Ernakulam, Indian Bastion Bunglow of Kerala, Bastion Bunglow...
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The Concertainer, known colloquially as the Hesco barrier or Hesco bastion, with HESCO being the brand name of the manufacturer, is a modern gabion primarily...
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Bastion is an action role-playing video game developed by independent developer Supergiant Games and originally published in 2011 by Warner Bros. Interactive...
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Erdélyi Bastion is a bastion at Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary. It is sometimes called in English the Transylvanian bastion. It is the strongest part...
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The ACMAT Bastion is a modern French armoured personnel carrier, manufactured by ACMAT. The Bastion was available to customers in North America and Oceania...
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The K-300P Bastion-P (NATO reporting name SS-C-5 Stooge) is a Russian mobile coastal defence missile system. The system was developed together with the...
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Social Bastion (French: Bastion Social) was a French political movement founded in 2017 by former members of the far-right student association Groupe Union...
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Galle Fort (redirect from Akersloot Bastion)
Aurora Bastion, Point Utrecht Bastion, Triton Bastion, Neptune Bastion, Clippenburg Bastion, Flagrock Bastion, Aeolus Bastion, Fishmark Bastion and Commandment...
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A bastion in naval strategy is a heavily defended area of water in which friendly naval forces can operate safely. Typically, that area will be partially...
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Camp Shorabak (redirect from Camp Bastion)
Camp Shorabak (formerly Camp Bastion) is a former British Army airbase, located northwest of the city of Lashkargah in Helmand Province, Afghanistan....
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Bastion is a global marketing and advisory company headquartered in the Melbourne, Australia suburb of Cremorne, Victoria. It is reportedly the largest...
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Mike Shaw (redirect from Bastion Booger)
stint in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as Norman the Lunatic, and as Bastion Booger in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). Mike Shaw started...
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The Triangular Bastion (Latvian: Triangula bastions) was part of the 18th-century fortifications of Riga. Its foundations are nowadays visible under a...
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Föhn Bastion (69°31′S 68°36′W / 69.517°S 68.600°W / -69.517; -68.600) is a landmark mountain rising to 915 metres (3,000 ft) about 8 nautical miles...
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1315°E / 31.5124; 64.1315 The September 2012 raid on Camp Bastion was a Taliban raid on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan's Helmand province on the night of 14 September...
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The Nanaimo Bastion is a historical octagon-shaped blockhouse located at 98 Front Street in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. The Hudson's Bay Company...
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The Bastion Museum is a museum of works by Jean Cocteau, on the harbour wall of Menton, on the French Riviera, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France...
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Takaparawhau / Bastion Point is a coastal piece of land in Ōrākei, Auckland, New Zealand, overlooking the Waitematā Harbour. The area is significant in...
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Bastion is a bastion situated at Stará baštová Street in the historic center of Košice, Slovakia. Its name is derived from the fact that the bastion was...
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Bastion (Macedonian: Бастион) was a Yugoslav synth-pop band formed in Skopje in 1982. Although short-lived, Bastion was a prominent act of the 1980s Yugoslav...
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The bastioned system of the Spanish city of Badajoz consists of a military fortification formed by a set of defensive walls, city gates, bridges, forts...
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Bastion is a restaurant (also described as a wine bar-cum-bistro) in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland. It was awarded a Michelin star for 2020. Opened in...
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9M117 Bastion is a Soviet laser beam-riding anti-tank missile. It is used in a number of separate weapon systems, including the 9K116-1 Bastion missile...
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