fortified town
11town — [OE] The ancestral meaning of town is ‘enclosed place’ – amongst its relatives are German zaun ‘hedge, fence’ and Old Irish dūn ‘fort, camp, fortified place’. Its Old English forerunner tūn was used for an ‘enclosure’ or ‘yard’, and also for a… …
12town — [OE] The ancestral meaning of town is ‘enclosed place’ – amongst its relatives are German zaun ‘hedge, fence’ and Old Irish dūn ‘fort, camp, fortified place’. Its Old English forerunner tūn was used for an ‘enclosure’ or ‘yard’, and also for a… …
13Newcastle town wall — Newcastle upon Tyne, England The Newcastle t …
14Korčula (town) — Infobox Settlement official name = Korčula native and official name until 1918 nickname = settlement type = motto = imagesize = image caption = Old Town flag size = image seal size = image shield = shield size = 80px city logo = citylogo size =… …
15Nih (town) — Nih was a town belonging to the ancient state of Sistan, which straddles the modern border of Afghanistan and Iran. In his 1930 book The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, Guy Le Strange wrote: At some distance to the west of the Zarah lake, on the… …
16Edinburgh town walls — Edinburgh, Scotland The Flodden Tower, with the Telfer Wall on the right, and Ed …
17New town — For places called New Town , see New Town (disambiguation). Model city redirects here. For the US urban aid program of the 1960s and 1970s see Model Cities Program. Navi Mumbai, India is the world s largest planned city. A new town is a specific… …
18St. Johnsville (town), New York — St. Johnsville is a town in Montgomery County, New York, United States. The population was 2,565 at the 2000 census. The town and its village are named after an early surveyor and commissioner, Alexander St. John.The Town of St. Johnsville is in… …
19Villages with fortified churches in Transylvania — Infobox World Heritage Site WHS = Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania State Party = ROU Type = Cultural Criteria = iv ID = 596 Region = Europe and North America Year = 1993 Session = 17th Extension = 1999 Link =… …
20Sarny Fortified Area — (known in Polish in several names: Sarnenski Rejon Umocniony , Sarnenski Odcinek Umocniony , Bastion Polesie ) was a line of bunkers and trenches along both sides of the Sluch river, in the area of the town of Sarny, northern Volhynia in Ukraine …
