- White Tower
The White Tower may refer to:
Geography and history
* The
White Tower of Thessaloniki ;
* The White Tower in theTower of London ;
*Weißer Turm , towers and U-bahn station in Germany;
*Sarkel (or Şarkil, literally "white house" inKhazar language ), a town in theKhazar Khaganate , later settled byRus' under the name Belaya Vezha ("White Tower" or "White Fortress" in Russian);
*TheTower of Kamyanyets , often called Belaya Vezha ("White Tower" in Belarusian), presumably because of its proximity to the nearbyBelavezhskaya Pushcha National Park on the border ofBelarus andPoland , 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 inRobert Jordan 'sThe Wheel of Time series offantasy novel s;
* TheTower of Ecthelion inJ. R. R. Tolkien 's fictionalMiddle-earth setting (also usedmetonymic ally for the city ofMinas Tirith or the country ofGondor , where it is located);
* "The White Tower (Dorothy Johnston) ", a 2003 novel byDorothy 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.
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