List of fortifications
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.
Individual fortifications
listed by name
- A Famosa, built in the 16th century in Malacca by the Portuguese following their defeat of the Malaccan Sultante
- Alderney
- 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
- British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War
- Castle of Bouka, Preveza, Greece
- Brimstone Hill Fortress, Saint Thomas Middle Island, Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Cairo Citadel, Egypt
- Castle Islands Fortifications, Bermuda
- Chester city walls, Chester, England
- 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
- Festungsfront Oder-Warthe-Bogen
- Floriana Lines, Floriana, Malta
- Fort Carré
- 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
- Limes Moesiae - defensive frontier system in Southeast Europe, a collection of Roman fortifications between the Black Sea shore and Pannonia, present-day Hungary, consisting primarily of forts along the Danube (so-called Danubian Limes) to protect the Roman provinces of Upper and Lower Moesia south of the river
- 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
- Molotov Line
- Montségur
- National Redoubt (Belgium)
- 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
- Rupnik 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
Articles relating to cities
Europe
- Ceintures de Lyon, built in the 19th century to surround the city of Lyon, France
- Walled city of Jajce, Bosnia
- Walled city of Počitelj, Bosnia
- Walled city of Vratnik, Bosnia
- Walls of Constantinople (modern day Istanbul), surrounding the city since the 4th century
- Walls of Dubrovnik, Croatia
- Roman walls of Lugo, Galicia, surrounding the city since the 1st century
- Walls of Ávila, Spain
- Walls of Nicosia, Cyprus
- Walls of Ston, Croatia
- Fortifications of Antwerp, Belgium
- Fortifications of Birgu, Malta
- Fortifications of Chania, Crete, Greece
- Fortifications of Famagusta, Cyprus
- Fortifications of Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Fortifications of London, England
- Lines of Communication (London), English Civil War fortifications built around London between 1642 and 1643
- London Defence Positions
- Outer London Defence Ring
- Military citadels under London
- 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
- List of town walls in England and Wales
- Rocca di Manerba del Garda (Lombardy), Italy
Africa
- Egypt
See also
- List of buildings
- List of castles
- List of forts
- List of walls
- List of cities with defensive walls
- List of established military terms (Engineering)
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- Abatis
- Acropolis
- Agger
- Broch
- Burgus
- Castellum
- Castra
- Castros
- Chengqiang
- Circular rampart
- City gate
- Crannog
- Ditch
- Defensive wall
- Dun
- Faussebraye
- Gatehouse
- Gord
- Hillfort
- Landwehr
- Limes
- Nuraghe
- Oppidum
- Palisade
- Pincer gate
- Promontory fort
- Rampart
- Ringfort (Rath)
- Refuge castle
- Schwedenschanze
- Stockade
- Sudis
- Trou de loup
- Vallum
- Wagon fort (Laager)
- Vitrified fort
- Advanced work
- Albarrana tower
- Alcazaba
- Alcázar
- Amba
- Arrowslit
- Barbican
- Bartizan
- Bastion
- Battery tower
- Battlement
- Bawn
- Bent entrance
- Bergfried
- Berm
- Bretèche
- Bridge castle
- Bridge tower
- Burh
- Butter-churn tower
- Caer
- Caltrop
- Castle
- Chamber gate
- Chartaque
- Chashi
- Chemin de ronde
- Chemise
- Cheval de frise
- Citadel
- Coercion castle
- Concentric castle
- Corner tower
- Counter-castle
- Curtain
- Drawbridge
- Enceinte
- Embrasure
- Flanking tower
- Fortified buildings (church, house, Dzong)
- Fujian tulou
- Ganerbenburg
- Gate tower
- Gabion
- Glacis
- Guard tower
- Gulyay-gorod
- Gusuku
- Half tower
- Hoarding
- Inner bailey
- Kasbah
- Keep
- Kremlin (Detinets)
- Ksar
- Landesburg
- L-plan castle
- Machicolation
- Merlon
- Moat
- Motte-and-bailey
- Murder hole
- Neck ditch
- Outer bailey
- Outwork
- Peel tower
- Portcullis
- Postern
- Powder tower
- Qalat
- Reduit
- Ribat
- Ricetto
- Ringwork
- Roundel
- Quadrangular castle
- Shell keep
- Shield wall
- Shiro
- Toll castle
- Tower castle
- Tower house
- Turret
- Viking ring fortress
- Wall tower
- Bailey (or ward)
- Watchtower
- Witch tower
- Yagura
- Yett
- Zwinger
- Castle town
- Château
- Dungeon
- Festung
- Loophole
- National redoubt
- Palas
- Picket
- Schloss
- Trench
- Vedette
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