White Tower

The White Tower may refer to:

Geography and history

* The White Tower of Thessaloniki;
* The White Tower in the Tower of London;
*Weißer Turm, towers and U-bahn station in Germany;
* Sarkel (or Şarkil, literally "white house" in Khazar language), a town in the Khazar Khaganate, later settled by Rus' under the name Belaya Vezha ("White Tower" or "White Fortress" in Russian);
*The Tower of Kamyanyets, often called Belaya Vezha ("White Tower" in Belarusian), presumably because of its proximity to the nearby Belavezhskaya Pushcha National Park on the border of Belarus and Poland, but not because of its color (which has always been brick-red).

Commerce

* The White Tower Hamburgers restaurant chain;

Films

* "White Tower", a 2004 Chinese film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424561/] [http://www.entertainment-news.org/breaking/8260/white-tower.html]
* "Operation White Tower", a 1948 United States film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0345743/]

Literature

* The headquarters of the fictional Aes Sedai in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series of fantasy novels;
* The Tower of Ecthelion in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth setting (also used metonymically for the city of Minas Tirith or the country of Gondor, where it is located);
* "The White Tower (Dorothy Johnston)", a 2003 novel by Dorothy Johnston.
* "The White Tower", the English name of "Shiroi Kyotō", a Japanese novel later adapted into a film and two TV mini-series.
* "White Tower", a Korean TV drama based on the Japanese novel.
* "The White Tower", a 1945 novel adapted into a 1950 film.