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2 unusual facts about defensive wall


Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back

Although Athalia successfully assaults the castle and valiantly slays many enemy soldiers, she is finally overpowered and captured on a rampart, where her all-woman army is unable to aid her.

Wiebbe Hayes

On the top of a slope, which the attackers would have to climb after landing, he used dry stones to build a small fort, erected near the freshwater well.


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He begins a major expansion of the city, strengthening the walls with fortified gates, building a palace complex and the Imperial Baths.

Abd al-Rahman of Morocco

The Agdal Gardens of Marrakesh, an irrigated garden, originally established by the Almoravids in the 12th century and enlarged in the days of the Saadians was revamped, reforested and encircled by ramparts during the reign of Mulai Abd al-Rahman.

Campus Esquilinus

The Campus Esquilinus was the area of flat ground outside the Servian Walls and the double rampart of the Agger, between the Querquetulan Gate and the Colline gate.

Portreeve

The term derives from the word port (which historically meant a market town or walled town, and not specifically a seaport); and the word reeve, meaning a high-ranking supervisory official.

Tharangambadi

The rampart wall is a fairly large four sided structure, with bastions at each cardinal point.


see also

Gonbad-e Qabus

This wall, which is the largest defensive wall in the world after the Great Wall of China, starts from the Caspian sea coast, circles north of the city of Gonbad-e Kāvus, continues towards the northeast, and vanishes into the Pishkamar Mountains.

Seraglio

It may refer to a wall or structure for containment, for example of caged wild animals; or for defence, such as the Serraglio of Villafranca di Verona, a defensive wall built by the Scaligeri.

Willow Palisade

With an exception of the northernmost segment (north of Kaiyuan), both eastern and western sections of the Inner Palisade ran either outside of the old Liaodong Wall (the defensive wall built by the Ming Dynasty in the 15th century to protect the agricultural heartland of Liaoning from incursions by Mongols and Jianzhou Jurchens), or, in places, reused parts of the old wall.