Gobannium was a Roman fort guarding the road along the valley of the River Usk which linked the legionary fortress of Burrium ( Usk ) and later Isca Augusta or Isca Silurum, ( Caerleon ) in the south with Y Gaer, Brecon and Mid Wales.

The remains are both burial-sites and buildings, and in the south part of this area, there is also a hill fort called " Borgen " (" The Fortress ").

The Great Uprising of 1598 swept all Spanish presence south of the Bío-Bío River except Chiloé ( and Valdivia which was decades later reestablished as a fort ), and the great river became the frontier line between Mapuche lands and the Spanish realm.

The fort was built by Royalist occupation forces in c. 1643 to the south east of the town, with a similar fort at Mount Ridley on the opposite slopes of what is now Kingswear.

Sancho Ramírez gained international recognition for Aragon, uniting it with Navarre, expanding the borders south, conquering Wasqa < sup > t </ sup > Huesca deep in the valleys in 1096 and building a fort, El Castellar, 25 km away from Saraqusta < sup > t </ sup > Zaragoza.

The wall started at Pearl Street, which was the shoreline at that time, crossing the Indian path Broadway and ending at the other shoreline ( today's Trinity Place ), where it took a turn south and ran along the shore until it ended at the old fort.

Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort ( castrum ) just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England.

In 1855 part of the fort was demolished so that the south bank of the Chicago River could be dredged, straightening the bend in the river and widening it at this point by about ; and in 1857, a fire destroyed nearly all the remaining buildings in the fort.

File: Gariannonum Burgh Castle south wall well preserved close up. jpg | Close-up of the wall of the Roman shore fort at Burgh Castle, Norfolk, showing alternating courses of flint and brick

The remains of Navarino Vecchio, or ancient Navarino, consist of a fort, covering the summit of a hill sloping quickly to the south, but falling in abrupt precipices to the north and east.

Fort Ticonderoga, formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century star fort built by the Canadians and the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in upstate New York in the United States.

The French, who had colonized the Saint Lawrence River valley to the north, and the English, who had taken over the Dutch settlements that became the Province of New York to the south, began contesting the area as early as 1691, when Pieter Schuyler built a small wooden fort at the Ticonderoga point on the western shore of the lake.

The French built the fort to control the south end of Lake Champlain and prevent the British from gaining military access to the lake.

The Joannes and Languedoc bastions overlooked the lake to the south, providing cover for the landing area outside the fort.

This, combined with continuing incursions up the Hudson River valley by British forces occupying New York City, led Washington to believe that any attack on the Albany area would be from the south, which, as it was part of the supply line to Ticonderoga, would necessitate a withdrawal from the fort.

The Masnedø fort was positioned such as it guarded the Storstrøm Bridge between the islands of Falster and Masnedø-on the main road from the south to Copenhagen.

Upon doing so, the construction of Carlisle Castle began in 1093 on the site of the Roman fort, south of the River Eden.

* Fort Wacissa ( 1838 ), a settlers ' fort located south of Wacissa on the Wacissa River, west of Cabbage Grove.

The area was given several names by the Spanish including Rio de Ays ( later anglicized to Indian River ) as well as Santa Lucia, named after the short-lived late 16th-century Spanish fort that bore its name farther south.

There was a Roman fort on the crossroads at Woodbury Farm, just south of the present town.

This roughly circular temple was found on top of Chapel Hill a little to the south of the fort, its walls of undressed stone facing with an earth and rubble infill enclosed an area measuring about 17¼ ft. across ; the insubstantial foundations indicate that the superstructure was at least half-timbered.

# Fort Williams ( not to be confused with Williamson's fort some 25 miles south in Greenwood County )

`` Jed's homestead is on the south bank ''.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.

The house is on Old Annapolis road a mile south of Severna Park, at Jones Station, police said.

He doesn't think that potting them from a deck chair on the south side of the house with a quart glass of beer for sustenance is entirely sporting.

Farther south in New York there is a heavy haze of color over the Catskills in mid-October, notably along routes 23 and 23A.

It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west.

It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait.

It is a peninsula bound by the Black Sea to the north, Georgia to the north-east, the Armenian Highland to the east, Mesopotamia to the south-east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west.

As one component of the interconnected global ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean ( which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic ), to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south.

The south tides in the Atlantic Ocean are semi-diurnal ; that is, two high tides occur during each 24 lunar hours.

The region north of this circle is known as the Arctic, and the zone just to the south is called the Northern Temperate Zone.

Rovaniemi ( in Finland ), which lies slightly south of the line, has a population of approximately 58, 000, and is the largest settlement in the immediate vicinity of the Arctic Circle.

It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and the east, Iran in the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the far northeast.

The region is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west.

The Anatolian peninsula, also called Asia Minor, is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, and the Sea of Marmara to the northwest, which separates Anatolia from Thrace in Europe.

The Dardanelles Strait, which links the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea, is approximately long and increases in width toward the south.

Southeast Anatolia is south of the Anti-Taurus Mountains.

Kildamhnait on the south east coast of Achill is named after St. Damhnait, or Dymphna, who founded a church there in the 16th century.

* 681 – Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube after defeating the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV south of the Danube delta.