Due to the strategic location of the site it was fortified from very early. In the 8th and 7th century BC the site of Amphipolis was ruled by Illyrian tribes.

The site of the ancient city contains the ruins of a Bronze Age fortified city, which was part of the Cemetery H culture and the Indus Valley Civilization, centered in Sindh and the Punjab.

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.

Haifa al -' Atiqa ( Arabic: " Ancient Haifa ") is another name used by locals to refer to Tell es-Samak, as it was the site of Haifa when it was a hamlet of 250 residents, before it was moved in 1764-5 to a new fortified site founded by Daher el-Omar one and half miles to the east.

The site was fortified early on, and by the 5th century a Gallo-Roman castrum had been established.

He rebuilt a castle and fortified mill on the site in the 1430s.

The fortified town of Carlsburg near Bremen, at the site of modern Bremerhaven, was named after Charles XI.

The site was fortified in the 11th century to control the ford across the Gave de Pau.

After Te Rauparaha's sack of the large pa ( fortified settlement ) at Kaiapoi near modern Christchurch in 1831, refugees came south and gained permission to settle at Kakaunui ( Kakanui ), and the territory between Pukeuri and Waianakarua, including the site of urban Oamaru, became their domain.

Emmitsburg was the site the Union had originally fortified to stop the Confederate invasion of the North in June 1863 during the American Civil War.

A second stone-built fortified building was suspected at the north, at the site of the current Slotweg (" castle road ") to be precise.

No remains of this castle ( most likely a fortified manor house ) remain, although it was built on the site of the present castle.

In 1093 Roger of Montgomery built the first castle at the site when he fortified the promontory during the Norman invasion of Wales.

Situated on the west shore of Lake Champlain about 15 miles north of Fort Ticonderoga it provided a fortified position about a day's travel north of that site.

West Point, Fort Arnold its proper name, was a fortified site during the Revolutionary War.

During the winter of 1861 and early 1862 the town was significantly fortified by the Confederacy and served as a supply depot for both sides at various points in the war, and is famous for being the site of the construction of the first railroad ever built exclusively for military use, the Centreville Military Railroad.

La Pointe was originally the site of a fortified French trading post from 1693 – 1698, and 1718-1759.

The site of the manor house was in Castle Park ; the building was of stone and was fortified.

In 1781, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, ordered the destruction of the city's fortified walls – their former location however continues to be referred to in the Latin terms intra muros ( within the walls ) and extra muros ( outside ), and meanwhile the site became that of the inner ring road.

During the period of the Viking invasions it would seem that there was a relatively important fortified site ( see the Vita Berlindis ) in Asse.

Powerful Veii was a fortified city on an elevated site, which required several years of Roman siege.

* Castel di Castro, 13th century fortified city at the site of modern Cagliari, Sardinia

Lexington has been described as having " a fortified economy, strong in manufacturing, technology and entrepreneurial support, benefiting from a diverse, balanced business base ".

In the 12th century the traveler and writer Muhammad al-Idrisi described the city of Murcia as populous and strongly fortified.

Livy described it as a fortified citadel where Roman magistrates took shelter.

Most of these, especially in urban areas, were large enough to be best described as fortified townships rather than private dwellings and are therefore not usually classed as castles.

Lieutenant Balneavis, who took part in the siege described Ruapekapeka in his journal as " a model of engineering, with a treble stockade, and huts inside, these also fortified.

Archeological studies have found that by 1300 CE, the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, a distinct group who spoke Laurentian, built fortified villages similar to those visited and described by explorer Jacques Cartier in the mid-16th century.

: The villages which are emptied in the manner described above must be included in the fixed defensive system and must be fortified as necessary.

By the 14th century, the people had built fortified villages similar to those described by Cartier on his later visit.

They spoke Laurentian, practiced agriculture, and built fortified villages, such as those visited and described by explorer Jacques Cartier.

They originated in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, a product of Europe's La Tène culture and a notional minimum size of has often been suggested, although it is flexible and fortified sites as small as have been described as oppida.

O ' Dea Castle is an Irish fortified tower house, loosely described as a castle at Dysert O ' Dea (), the former O ' Dea clan stronghold, 5 km from Corofin, County Clare just off the R476 road.

He described how it should not be used as one uses a tank, rather as a unit directly involved with infantry advance to destroy fortified objectives through direct fire.

In 963 AD two towns are described in East Shropshire these have now been identified as Newport, Shropshire, Plesc was described as having a High street, a stone quarry and a religious community, The name Plesc means fortified place or one with palicade, denoting it was of some importance.

The castle is more accurately described as a fortified manor house and was occupied from at least the late 12th century.

In 126 BCE, the Chinese envoy, Zhang Qian described Loulan as a fortified city near Lop Nur.

" In 126 BCE, the Chinese envoy, Zhang Qian described Loulan as a fortified city near Lop Nur.

The governor of Cambridge described in 1643 that " our town and castle are now very strongly fortified ... with breastworks and bulwarks ".

In the 19th century, settlements were described as typically large, compact, and fortified for defense with strong wooden stockades, often in high inaccessible rocky places.

Abbo of Fleury, writing in the late 10th century, described East Anglia as " fortified in the front with a bank or rampier like unto a huge wall, and with a trench or ditch below in the ground ".

Despite its name, it is described as a " three-storey castellated house ", and lacks many fortified features, standing as it does on low ground and constructed at a time of relative national calm.

The old Sich, or fortified camp of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, brilliantly described in N. V. Gogol's novel Taras Bulba ( 1834 ), was situated a little higher up the river.