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List of fortifications

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This is a list of fortifications past and present, a fortification being a major physical defensive structure often composed of a more or less wall-connected series of forts.

Contents

Individual fortifications

listed by name

  • A Famosa, built in the 16th century in Malacca by the Portuguese following their defeat of the Malaccan Sultante.
  • Alpine Wall
  • Anastasian Wall, built in the 5th century across the Thracian peninsula for the protection of Constantinople
  • Antonine Wall, built by the Romans in northern Britain
  • Atlantic Wall, constructed by the Germans during the Second World War
  • Babylon Fortress in Old Cairo.
  • Baggush Box
  • Bar Lev Line
  • Beijing city fortifications
  • Castle of Bouka, Preveza, Greece
  • Brimstone Hill Fortress, Saint Thomas Middle Island, Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Cairo Citadel, Egypt
  • Castle Islands Fortifications, Bermuda
  • Corradino Lines, Paola, Malta
  • Cottonera Lines, Cottonera, Malta
  • Czechoslovak border fortifications
  • Danevirke
  • Devils Battery, Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia
  • Defense line of Amsterdam
  • The Dutch Water Line, protecting the core provinces of the Netherlands, utilising the flooding of areas with water
  • Elvas Fortifications, the largest bulwarked dry ditch system in the world, protecting the Portuguese garrison border town of Elvas.
  • Floriana Lines, Floriana, Malta
  • Fort Jesus, built in the 15th century in Mombassa by the Portuguese.
  • Götavirke (Sweden)
  • Great Wall of China, built as a protection from the northern steppe nomads
  • Great Abatis Border
  • Gustav Line, a fortified German defensive line in Italy during the Second World War
  • Hadrian's Wall, built by the Romans in northern Britain
  • Hexamilion wall, built across the Isthmus of Corinth
  • Hilsea Lines, built to protect Portsmouth
  • Hindenburg line
  • Humaitá
  • Hindenburg Wall
  • Intramuros, Manila
  • Justinian Walls (in several locations along the borders of the Byzantine empire)
  • Klis Fortress in Croatia
  • Krepost Sveaborg, Imperial Russian First World War fortifications around Helsinki
  • Limes Germanicus, Roman defensive line along the Rhine and in South-western Germany
  • Lines of Torres Vedras, built to protect the Lisbon Region, during the Peninsular War
  • London Wall, the Roman wall around the city
  • Maginot Line, built by France in the 1930s
  • Mannerheim Line, built by Finland across the Karelian Isthmus
  • Metaxas Line, built during 1936-1940 by Greece along its frontier with Bulgaria
  • Międzyrzecz Fortification Region
  • Molotov Line
  • Montsegur
  • Newcastle town wall
  • Offa's Dyke, an 8th-century earthwork dividing England and Wales
  • Grim's Ditch
  • Per Albin Line (Sweden)
  • Petrovaradin fortress, in Northern Serbia, Austrian fortress from the 18th century.
  • Rupel Fortress, in Northern Greece, later incorporated in the Metaxas Line
  • Santa Margherita Lines, in Cospicua, Malta
  • Saxon Shore, in southern Britain and northern France
  • Siegfried Line, constructed along Nazi Germany's western borders in the 1930s
  • Stalin Line, built along the Soviet Union's western borders in the 1930s
  • Suomenlinna, an 18th-century fortress in Helsinki
  • Victoria Lines, in northern Malta
  • York city walls

    • Europe

  • Walls of Constantinople (modern day Istanbul), surrounding the city since the 4th century
  • Walls of Dubrovnik, Croatia
  • Walls of Lugo, Galicia, surrounding the city since the 1st century
  • Walls of Nicosia, Cyprus
  • Walls of Ston, Croatia
  • Fortifications of Birgu, Malta
  • Fortifications of Chania, Crete, Greece
  • Fortifications of Famagusta, Cyprus
  • Fortifications of Heraklion, Crete, Greece
  • Fortifications of London, England
  • Fortifications of Kotor, Montenegro
  • Fortifications of Mdina, Malta
  • Fortifications of Messina, Sicily, Italy
  • Fortifications of Metz, France
  • Fortifications of Portsmouth, England
  • Fortifications of Senglea, Malta
  • Fortifications of Valletta, Malta
  • Defence lines of the Netherlands
  • Lines of Communication (London), English Civil War fortifications built around London between 1642 and 1643.
  • List of town walls in England and Wales

    • Africa

  • Egypt

    • References

    List of fortifications Wikipedia
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