List of fortifications

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.
*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
*Beijing city fortifications
*Cairo Citadel, Egypt
*Castle Islands Fortifications, Bermuda
*Cottonera Lines, Cottonera, Malta
*Czechoslovak border fortifications
*Danevirke
*Defense line of Amsterdam
*The Dutch Water Line, protecting the core provinces of the Netherlands, utilising the flooding of areas with water
*Fort Jesus, built in the 15th century in Mombassa by the Portuguese.
*Floriana Lines, Floriana, Malta
*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
*Hindenburg Wall
*Intramuros, Manila
*Justinian Walls (in several locations along the borders of the Byzantine empire)
*Limes Germanicus, Roman defensive line along the Rhine and in South-western Germany
*Lines of Torres Vedras
*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
*Międzyrzecz Fortification Region
*Molotov Line
*Montsegur
*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 XVIII century.
*Rupel Fortress, in Northern Greece, later incorporated in the Metaxas Line
*Saxon Shore, in southern Britain and northern France
*Siegfried Line, constructed along 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
*Valletta Fortifications, Valletta, Malta
*Victoria Lines, Malta
*York city walls

Articles relating to cities

Europe

*Walls of Constantinople (modern day Istanbul), surrounding the city since the 4th century
*Fortifications of London, England
*Fortifications of Metz, France
*Fortifications of Portsmouth, England
* [http://www.tesionline.com/intl/thesis.jsp?idt=22741 Fortification Walls of Vaste (Lecce)]

Africa

* Egypt

ee also

* List of buildings
* List of castles
* List of forts
* List of walls
* Martello tower
* List of cities with defensive walls
* List of established military terms (Engineering)


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