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• Fortified tower — Gate towers at Harlech Castle A fortified tower (also defensive tower or castle tower or, in context, just tower) is one of the defensive structures used in fortifications, such as castles, along with curtain walls. Castle towers can have a… …   Wikipedia

• Fortified Houses — In Ireland at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century the fortified House, along with stronghouses, developed as a replacement for the tower house. Fortified Houses were often rectangular, or sometimes U or L shaped,… …   Wikipedia

• Towers of Bologna — The Towers of Bologna are a group of medieval structures in Bologna, Italy. The two most prominent ones, also called the Two Towers, are the landmark of the city. HistoryBetween the 12th and the 13th century, the number of towers in the city was… …   Wikipedia

• Towers — Recorded in the spellings such as Toor, Tour, Tower, Towers, De la Tour, Latour, de la Torre, Torre, Torres, and diminutives such as Touret, Torricina etc, this is a surname which has to be described as European . In origin it can be said to be… …   Surnames reference

• List of cities with defensive walls — The following cities have, or have had, defensive walls.EuropeAlbania* Berat * Butrint * Krujë Austria * Vienna (destroyed and became the Ringstraße) * Bruck an der LeithaAzerbaijan* Baku, retains most of its city walls that separate the historic …   Wikipedia

• Villages with fortified churches in Transylvania — Infobox World Heritage Site WHS = Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania State Party = ROU Type = Cultural Criteria = iv ID = 596 Region = Europe and North America Year = 1993 Session = 17th Extension = 1999 Link =… …   Wikipedia

• Nantyglo Round Towers — are located at Roundhouse Farm, Nantyglo near Brynmawr in the borough of Blaenau Gwent in the South Wales Valleys. The two fortified towers were constructed in 1816 during the period of national unrest due to high wheat prices following the end… …   Wikipedia

• The Fortified House in Scotland — is a five volume book by the Scottish author Nigel Tranter.Written between 1962 and 1970, it covers almost seven hundred buildings in Scotland which fall under the general description of fortalices, lesser castles, peel towers, keeps and… …   Wikipedia

• Buckden Towers — Buckden Towers, formerly known as Buckden Palace, is a 12th century fortified manor house, located on High Street, Buckden, Cambridgeshire, England (gbmapping|TL19246772).Though often stated as being built in the 15th century, it was actually… …   Wikipedia

• bridge — bridge1 bridgeable, adj. bridgeless, adj. bridgelike, adj. /brij/, n., v., bridged, bridging, adj. n. 1. a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like. 2. a connecting, transitional, or intermediate route or… …   Universalium

• HAZOR — (Heb. חָצוֹר), a large Canaanite and Israelite city in Upper Galilee. It is identified with Tell al Qidāḥ (also called Tell Waqqāṣ), 8¾ mi. (14 km.) north of the Sea of Galilee and 5 mi. (8 km.) southwest of Lake Ḥuleh . The city was… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism