World

1. RID is not out to bash the bastions of the best health-care system in the world. (Web site)

Southern Africa

1. The racist regime in the Republic of South Africa is one of the bastions of the colonial system in southern Africa.

Seminary

1. King went to seminary and received a doctorate from two bastions of liberal theology, Crozer Theological Seminary and Boston University, respectively.

Thalassery Fort

1. In 1700, they built the Thalassery Fort on a small hill called Tiruvellapadkunnu and in 1708 it was strengthened by increasing its height and with bastions.

Ravelin

1. A ravelin is a triangular fortification, detached outwork in front of the bastions. (Web site)

Walls

1. Surrounded by walls, bastions and a moat, Göteborg was one of the most well defended fortresses in Northern Europe. (Web site)

Wall

1. The wall, which had a roll plinth at the base, has unlike Sirkap, semi-circular bastions on the outside. (Web site)

Fort

1. The fort was one among the first few bastions that were built by the East India Company in 1640 to protect its interests in India from rival companies. (Web site)

Forts

1. These soon replaced castles in Europe, and eventually castles in the Americas were superseded by bastions and forts. (Web site)
2. Deal Castle was the largest of these forts, mounting over 100 guns on three tiers of semi-circular bastions. (Web site)

Gates

1. Surnamed the "city of plums," Elvas is an outstanding example of 17th-century fortifications, with gates, curtain walls, moats, bastions.

Towers

1. The fort is a wall with towers and bastions at intervals calculated.

Bastion

1. Furnished with a bastion; having bastions. (Web site)

Citadel

1. Citadels were typically surrounded by bastions, extremely thick, zig-zagging walls which allowed people on the inside to defend the citadel from attackers.
2. In a fort with bastions, the citadel is the strongest part of the fort, well inside of the outer walls and bastions. (Web site)

Fortifications

1. The knights left behind many great palaces, bastions, fortifications and other historical buildings. (Web site)

High Walls

1. About a mile to our front, and stretching to right and left as far as the eye could reach, appeared the high walls and the bastions of Delhi.

Curtain

1. A curtain (or curtain wall) connected two or more bastions. (Web site)

Bastions

1. Fortification curtain - A fortification curtain or a curtain is the section of a wall or rampart between two gates, bastions, towers or the like.
2. The old city is surrounded by powerful fortifications with bastions, battlements, gates and moat; a fine example of 15-16th century art. (Web site)
3. The fort constitutes battlements with towers and bastions at calculated intervals.

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1. Rampart
2. Curtain
3. History > Castles > Fortification > Moat
4. High Walls
5. Outer Walls
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