Many of the burhs were twin towns that straddled a river and connected by a fortified bridge, like those built by Charles the Bald a generation before.

In 1099, Bethlehem was captured by the Crusaders, who fortified it and built a new monastery and cloister on the north side of the Church of the Nativity.

Adopting a relatively new tactic, Polish units built a fortified camp on the Hussite model consisting of wagons linked by a chain surrounded by a deep ditch ( tabor ).

While Portuguese and Spanish activity in the region had weakened, the English had built fortified trading posts on tiny Ai and Run islands, ten to twenty kilometres from the main Banda Islands.

The city itself grew around the heavily fortified Diocletian's Palace the Emperor had built in anticipation of his retirement.

The villages, built between the 14th and 16th centuries, have a carefully designed layout with fortified gates and narrow streets to protect against the frequent raids by marauding pirates.

He built a fortified capital at Ngazargamu, to the west of Lake Chad ( in present-day Niger ), the first permanent home a Sayfawa mai had enjoyed in a century.

In the late 9th century, a Slavic Pomeranian fortified settlement was built at the site of modern part of Kołobrzeg county called Budzistowo near modern Kołobrzeg, replacing nearby Bardy-Świelubie, a multi-ethnic emporium, as the center of the region.

Morocco subsequently built the Moroccan Wall, a network of fortified berms around the largest portion of Western Sahara and has since asserted administrative control over that territory.

During his reign was built one of the most fortified castle cities on the Adriatic Durrës Castle in Durrës.

During his reign, Janiculum Hill on the western bank was fortified further to protect Rome, and the first bridge across the Tiber River was built.

He built elaborate defenses and strongholds, along with fortified cities.

During the " fluted-pottery " era, people built several fortified sites.

Despite this legendary history, the first authenticated history of Totnes is in AD 907, when it was fortified by King Edward the Elder as part of the defensive ring of burhs built around Devon, replacing one built a few years earlier at nearby Halwell.

It is regarded as " the last serious fortified home built in England " and " it was executed to the highest standards and is one of the great buildings of its age ".

The first fortified settlements, Asva and Ridala on the island of Saaremaa and Iru in the Northern Estonia began to be built.

* The large fortified Castello Visconteo ( built 1360-1365 by Galeazzo II Visconti ).

In 1364, Timur also built a fortified palace with moats in what is now the southern part of the city.

Due to its strategic position in the Mediterranean Sea, Alghero was built around a fortified port, founded around 1102 by the Genoese Doria family.

In 124 BC the Romans built a castrum, or fortified camp, which eventually evolved into a full city named Hasta.

It built heavily fortified settlements, engaged in bronze metallurgy on an industrial scale and practiced complex burial rituals reminiscent of rituals known from the Rigveda and the Avesta.

In about 1300, town walls were built, and the bridge over the Monnow was fortified.

Venice fortified Padua with new walls, built between 1507 and 1544, with a series of monumental gates.

It is usually thought that the first such camp in the general area of today's Khabarovsk was the fortified winter camp named Achansk () or Achansky gorodok (), built by the Cossacks of Yerofey Khabarov in September 1651 after they had sailed to the area from the upper Amur.

The Funkturm Berlin is a tall lattice radio tower at the fair area, built between 1924 and 1926.

A tower house was built on the estate by the Gordons.

While the Khmer built a standard brick tower, Po Klaung Garai directed his people to build an impressive replica of paper and wood.

The name " mountain house " suggests a lofty structure and was perhaps the designation originally of the staged tower at Nippur, built in imitation of a mountain, with the sacred shrine of the god on the top.

* Armstrong Tower — tall lattice tower built and used by Edwin Armstrong in 1938

He then built a laboratory on the Champ de Mars at the foot of the tower in 1905, building his first wind tunnel there in 1909.

Eiffel had meteorological measuring equipment placed on the tower in 1889, and also built a weather station at his house in Sèvres.

Fenwick Library was originally built in 1967, with additions in 1974, a tower in 1983, and renovations in 2005 – 2006.

It said the Fathers saw foreshadowings of Mary's " wondrous abundance of divine gifts and original innocence " " in that ark of Noah, which was built by divine command and escaped entirely safe and sound from the common shipwreck of the whole world ; in the ladder which Jacob saw reaching from the earth to heaven, by whose rungs the angels of God ascended and descended, and on whose top the Lord himself leaned ; in that bush which Moses saw in the holy place burning on all sides, which was not consumed or injured in any way but grew green and blossomed beautifully ; in that impregnable tower before the enemy, from which hung a thousand bucklers and all the armor of the strong ; in that garden enclosed on all sides, which cannot be violated or corrupted by any deceitful plots ; in that resplendent city of God, which has its foundations on the holy mountains ; in that most august temple of God, which, radiant with divine splendours, is full of the glory of God ; and in very many other biblical types of this kind.

A radio tower built by the Germans in 1937 in Kabul allowed instant communication with outlying villages.

Although Kenilworth's great tower is larger, it is similar to that of Brandon Castle near Coventry ; both were built by the local Clinton family in the 1120s.

Gaunt's kitchen replaced the original 12th-century kitchens, built alongside the great tower in a similar fashion to the arrangement at Conisbrough.

He built a tower now known as Leicester's building on the south edge of the court as a guest wing, extending out beyond the inner bailey wall for extra space.

Fife Airport lies a mile ( 1. 5 km ) to the north and on a hill overlooking the farm of Redwells stands Blythe's Folly, a 15. 6m ( 52 feet ) high tower built in 1812 by an eccentric Leith shipowner.

Blythe's Tower, built 1812, is a four storey square tower, 15. 8 m ( 54 ft ) high, built of random rubble with ashlar string courses and a crenellated parapet.

The tower was built by a linen merchant in order to view ships as they entered the Forth, affording the merchant the opportunity to procure the best goods at port.

The Lighthouse of Alexandria ( in Ancient Greek, ὁ Φάρος της Ἀλεξανδρείας ), was a tower built between 280 and 247 BC on the island of Pharos at Alexandria, Egypt.

File: Knarrarósviti Lighthouse. jpg | The Knarrarósviti Lighthouse is a two-staged tower, built in 1938-1939, located near the town of Stokkseyri.

The ruling class among the mediaeval townsfolk were rich merchant families whose houses stood right near the castle tower and were surrounded by the first town wall once it was built.

The church is built with a nave, two aisles, a transept and a tower.

The oldest standing minaret in the world is the minaret of the Great Mosque of Kairouan in Tunisia, built between the 8th and the 9th century, it is a massive square tower consisting of three superimposed tiers of gradual size and decor.

The chief churches of Montauban are the cathedral, remarkable only for the possession of the " Vow of Louis XIII ", one of the masterpieces of Ingres, and the church of St Jacques ( 14th and 15th centuries ), dedicated to Saint James of Compostela, the façade of which is surmounted by a handsome octagonal tower, the base of which is in Romanesque style, while the upper levels, built later, are in Gothic style.

The current tower is at least the second Eiffel Tower replica built in Paris ; the first was constructed of wood and later destroyed by a tornado.

The Baroque bell tower was built in 1616, the cups being finished in 1753.