A fortified gateway is an element of a variety of fortified structures, such as a castle or walled town. Fortified gates or gateways appear in the Bronze...
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A barbican (from Old French: barbacane) is a fortified outpost or fortified gateway, such as at an outer defense perimeter of a city or castle, or any...
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A gatehouse is a type of fortified gateway, an entry control point building, enclosing or accompanying a gateway for a town, religious house, castle,...
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a gate which is, or was, set within a city wall. It is a type of fortified gateway. City gates were traditionally built to provide a point of controlled...
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destroy fortifications such as defensive walls, castles, bunkers and fortified gateways. Petrary is the generic term for medieval stone throwing siege engines...
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defensive stone towers. Besides the towers, there are still some fortified gateways (torresotti) that correspond to the gates of the 12th-century city...
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ancient bridge of two arches crosses the river at Warkworth, with a fortified gateway on the road mounting to the castle, the site of which is surrounded...
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Manor house (redirect from Fortified manor)
formerly house the landed gentry. Manor houses were sometimes fortified, albeit not as fortified as castles, but this was often more for show than for defence...
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Defense line Fortified estate Fortifications Forts Military installations Walls Related word Castle town Château Dungeon Festung Fortified gateway Gatekeeper...
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difficulty as possible to reach them. There are embrasures especially in fortified castles and bunkers. The generic term of loophole is gradually abandoned...
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construction including 13 interlocking towers, with entry only via a fortified gateway and the name was anglicized from Barley to Balley. During the French...
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cities and large towns, is a Jewish quarter enclosed by a wall and a fortified gateway, typically near the residence of the sultan or governor. In cities...
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damned on the right. The saved are led up to heaven, often shown as a fortified gateway, while the damned are handed over to devils who herd them down into...
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Saint-Antoine with two high stone towers and a 78-foot-wide (24 m) ditch. A fortified gateway of this sort was called a bastille, and was one of two created in...
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Defense line Fortified estate Fortifications Forts Military installations Walls Related word Castle town Château Dungeon Festung Fortified gateway Gatekeeper...
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the former city boundary. At this point stood the Netherbow Port, a fortified gateway between Edinburgh and the Canongate (until 1856 a separate burgh)...
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19th century. In cities, a mellah was surrounded by a wall with a fortified gateway. Usually, the Jewish quarter was situated near the royal palace or...
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eastern side by the addition of a gatehouse, a barbican (a form of fortified gateway), and a tower on either side of the reconstructed wall, named Caesar's...
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Gate tower (category Fortified towers by type)
in the XV century. Tower Gate Gatehouse City gate Triumphal arch Fortified gateway Burgen und feste Plätze : europäischer Wehrbau vor Einführung der...
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known as mellahs. In cities, these were surrounded by walls and a fortified gateway. Rural mellahs, however, were separate villages inhabited solely by...
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Aleppo (Arabic: قلعة حلب, romanized: Qalʿat Ḥalab) is a large medieval fortified palace in the centre of the old city of Aleppo, northern Syria. It is...
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for the palace's occupants. Khan then ordered the construction of a fortified gateway on the northern edge of the lake. Following this, a causeway was built...
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its political system. The Iron II settlement was fortified and was perhaps entered via a fortified road system located on the southwest side of the High...
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constructed along with a fortified gateway on its western end popularly known as Lahori Gate, one of the 14 gates of the fortified city of Delhi or Shahjahanabad...
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الدروازة الكبيرة), is an 18th or 19th-century historic earth-structured fortified gateway in the ad-Dirah neighborhood of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located in the...
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Westgate West Gate, Ipswich, Suffolk Westgate, Winchester, a medieval fortified gateway in Winchester, Hampshire Westgate Mall (disambiguation), various shopping...
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Parthenay (French: [paʁtənɛ] ; Poitevin: Partenaes) is an ancient fortified town and commune in the Deux-Sèvres department of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region...
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confined to mellahs. In cities, a mellah was surrounded by a wall with a fortified gateway. In contrast, rural mellahs were separate villages whose sole inhabitants...
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Meanwhile, to protect the eastern approach to Paris, Marcel constructed a fortified gateway (the original Bastille). Financial straits, not least dealing with...
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Defense line Fortified estate Fortifications Forts Military installations Walls Related word Castle town Château Dungeon Festung Fortified gateway Gatekeeper...
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