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- Defensive_wall abstract "A defensive wall is a fortification used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors. In ancient to modern times, they were used to enclose settlements. Generally, these are referred to as city walls or town walls, although there were also walls, such as the Great Wall of China, Walls of Benin, Hadrian's Wall, and the metaphorical Atlantic Wall, which extended far beyond the borders of a city and were used to enclose regions or mark territorial boundaries. Beyond their defensive utility, many walls also had important symbolic functions – representing the status and independence of the communities they embraced.Existing ancient walls are almost always masonry structures, although brick and timber-built variants are also known. Depending on the topography of the area surrounding the city or the settlement the wall is intended to protect, elements of the terrain (e.g. rivers or coastlines) may be incorporated in order to make the wall more effective.Walls may only be crossed by entering the appropriate city gate and are often supplemented with towers. The practice of building these massive walls, though having its origins in prehistory, was refined during the rise of city-states, and energetic wall-building continued into the medieval period and beyond in certain parts of Europe.Simpler defensive walls of earth or stone, thrown up around hillforts, ringworks, early castles and the like, tend to be referred to as ramparts.".
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- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Afghanistan.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Alsace.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Ancient_Greece.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Ancient_Rome.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Ark_of_Bukhara.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Assyria.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Athens.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Atlantic_Wall.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Augsburg.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Aurelian_Walls.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Babylon.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Bahawlpur.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Barbed_wire.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Barricade.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Bastion.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Beijing.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Beijing_Legation_Quarter.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Belfast.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Berlin_Wall.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Border_barrier.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Bran_Castle.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Brașov.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Buhen.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Burg_Coucy.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Burghausen,_Altötting.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Campeche_City.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Cannon.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Carcassonne.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Cartagena,_Colombia.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Castle.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Category:Castle_architecture.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Category:City_walls.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fortification_(architectural_elements).
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Celts.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Chania.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink China.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Chinese_city_wall.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Citadel.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink City.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink City-state.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink City_gate.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink City_of_San_Marino.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Colombia.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Constantinople.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Conwy.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Crete.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Croatia.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Cyclopean_masonry.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Cyprus.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Derawar_Fort.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Derry.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Dinkelsbühl.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Ditch_(fortification).
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink East_Germany.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Embrasure.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Enclave_and_exclave.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Estonia.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Famagusta.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Forbidden_City.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Fortification.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Fortified_tower.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink France.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Franconia.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Franken_(Region).
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Free_imperial_city.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Galicia_(Spain).
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Gate_tower.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Georgia_(country).
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Germany.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Gonio.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Great_Wall_of_China.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Hadrians_Wall.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Hattusa.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Heraklion.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Hillfort.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Hirschhorn_(Neckar).
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink History_of_China.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink History_of_German_settlement_in_Central_and_Eastern_Europe.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Indus_River.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Indus_Valley_Civilisation.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Ishtar_Gate.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Israel.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Japan.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Japanese_invasions_of_Korea_(1592–98).
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Jericho.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Korea.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Kot_Diji.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Königsberg.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Lincoln,_England.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink Lines_of_Communication_(London).
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink List_of_cities_with_defensive_walls.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink List_of_town_walls_in_England_and_Wales.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink List_of_walls.
- Defensive_wall wikiPageWikiLink London.