Fortified tower information

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...

Peel towers (also spelt pele) are small fortified keeps or tower houses, built along the English and Scottish borders in the Scottish Marches and North...

height of the tower. For example, the height of a clock tower improves the visibility of the clock, and the height of a tower in a fortified building such...

A bridge tower (German: Brückenturm) was a type of fortified tower built on a bridge. They were typically built in the period up to early modern times...

A keep is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars have debated the scope of the word keep...

The tower house served the purpose of protecting the extended family. In the Baltic states, the Teutonic Order and other crusaders erected fortified tower...

The Galata Tower (Turkish: Galata Kulesi), officially the Galata Tower Museum (Turkish: Galata Kulesi Müzesi), is an old Genoese tower in the Galata part...

tower replaced an old Byzantine fortification, known to have been mentioned around the 12th century, that the Ottoman Empire reconstructed to fortify...

A gate tower is a tower built over or next to a major gateway. Usually it is part of a medieval fortification. This may be a town or city wall, fortress...

Most Fortified City. The Quest, 1990 G, KaDee (1 September 1974). "English: Tower Dupre was a hexagonal 2 story fortified tower (a Martello Tower or Martello...

lightly fortified. Not infrequently, the village church was developed into a fortified church or even a fortress church. The massive church tower - or in...

Copenhagen, Denmark Irish round tower Fortified tower This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Round Tower. If an internal link led...

A flanking tower is a fortified tower that is sited on the outside of a defensive wall or other fortified structure and thus forms a flank. From the defensive...

"ordinary" castle is fluid, as is its transition to the fortified house. Fortified house Tower house Watchtower Horst Wolfgang Böhme, Reinhard Friedrich...

prominent structure, was used as a storehouse in times of peace and as a fortified tower in times of war, and the daimyo (大名, feudal lord)'s government offices...

prominent structure, was used as a storehouse in times of peace and as a fortified tower in times of war, and the daimyo (大名, feudal lord)'s government offices...

Albanian tower house Peel tower or Pele tower: fortified tower houses in England and Scotland used as keeps or houses Vainakh tower: a tower house found...

The Zoo flak tower (German: Flakturm Tiergarten, Tiergarten Flak Tower or commonly referred to as the "Zoo Tower") was a fortified flak tower that existed...

French: barbacane) is a fortified outpost or fortified gateway, such as at an outer defense perimeter of a city or castle, or any tower situated over a gate...

curtain wall and the adjacent bastions. Compared with the medieval fortified towers they replaced, bastion fortifications offered a greater degree of passive...

half tower (sometimes half-tower), open tower, or open-gorged tower (German: Schalenturm, Halbschalenturm or Schanzturm) is a fortified stone tower in an...

Flak tower Folly fort Forward operating base Forward operating site Fortress church Fortified church Fortified house Grad, a Slavic wooden fortified settlement...

walks or open galleries Gatehouse – Entry control building Gate tower – Fortified tower at a major gateway Hypostyle – Hall with a roof supported by columns...

Witch tower or Witches' Tower (German: Hexenturm) is a common name or description in English and other European languages for a tower that was part of...

parapet Fortified church in Saint-Angel, Corrèze, France. Prejmer fortified church, Romania Biertan fortified church, Romania Moşna fortified church,...

Commissioned by Charles I of Spain in 1539, it was first built as a fortified tower in honor of Philip II, who oversaw its expansion into a hornwork fort...