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A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors. The walls can range from simple...41 KB (4,988 words) - 01:49, 2 July 2024- Sasanian defensive walls)Shapur II established a defensive system in southern Mesopotamia to prevent raids via land. The defensive line, called the Wall of the Arabs (Middle Persian:...21 KB (2,255 words) - 21:04, 9 April 2024
Operation Defensive Shield (Hebrew: מִבְצָע חוֹמַת מָגֵן Mītzvāh Ḥōmat Māgēn) was a 2002 Israeli military operation in the West Bank, carried out amidst...57 KB (6,416 words) - 19:09, 12 May 2024
The London Wall is a defensive wall first built by the Romans around the strategically important port town of Londinium in c. AD 200, as well as the name...61 KB (4,553 words) - 11:37, 3 May 2024
The Servian Wall (Latin: Murus Servii Tullii; Italian: Mura Serviane) is an ancient Roman defensive barrier constructed around the city of Rome in the...14 KB (1,560 words) - 16:12, 27 May 2024
curtain wall is a defensive wall between fortified towers or bastions of a castle, fortress, or town. Evidence for curtain walls or a series of walls surrounding...5 KB (466 words) - 02:34, 24 December 2023
Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Vallum Hadriani, also known as the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Aelium in Latin) is a former defensive fortification of the...70 KB (7,894 words) - 19:57, 15 June 2024
list of notable fortified structures. For city walls in particular, see List of cities with defensive walls. Fossatum Africae Sungbo's Eredo, built during...12 KB (891 words) - 20:23, 22 June 2024
trunks or wooden or iron stakes used as a fence for enclosure or as a defensive wall. Palisades can form a stockade. Palisade derives from pale, from the...11 KB (1,078 words) - 15:42, 18 April 2024
Chinese city walls (traditional Chinese: 城牆; simplified Chinese: 城墙; pinyin: chéngqiáng; "city wall") refer to defensive walls built to protect important...33 KB (4,477 words) - 21:31, 5 May 2024
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...5 KB (458 words) - 17:23, 20 February 2024
Kremlin Wall is a defensive wall that surrounds the Moscow Kremlin, recognisable by the characteristic notches and its Kremlin towers. The original walls were...13 KB (1,617 words) - 17:30, 30 October 2023
For most of its length it is close to the remains of Hadrian's Wall, the defensive wall built by the Romans on the northern border of their empire. This...10 KB (1,172 words) - 13:25, 11 January 2024
The 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...16 KB (1,625 words) - 19:53, 29 January 2024 - The defensive walls of Łęczyca are walls constructed around the small, but once strategically important Polish town of Łęczyca. They were built by Kazimierz...5 KB (657 words) - 11:45, 13 March 2019
- the Vallum, of uncertain use. The defensive wall was probably first erected by Hadrian about A.D. 122 as a turf wall, and rebuilt in stone by Septimius
- A battlement, in defensive architecture, such as that of city walls or castles, comprises a parapet (a defensive low wall between chest-height and head-height)
- definitely important to the Macedonian armies as it provided a strong defensive wall against the powerful Ottoman troops. According to Macedonian historians