List of walls
The Great Wall of China is the world's longest wall
See List of fortifications for a list of notable fortified structures. For city walls in particular, see List of cities with defensive walls (regional list: List of town walls in England and Wales).
Pre-modern fortifications
Part of the southern section of the Chester city walls showing the base of a former drum tower and the River Dee
The Walls of Ston are a series of defensive stone walls, originally more than 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) long, that surrounded and protected the city of Ston, in Dalmatia, part of the Republic of Ragusa, in what is now southern Croatia.[1]
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Anastasian Wall in Turkey -
Antonine Wall in Scotland, United Kingdom - part of UNESCO site 430[2] -
Aurelian Walls of Rome -
Walls of Ston in Croatia -
Ávila Walls, Spain - UNESCO site 348[3] - Barcelona Walls, Spain
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Ranikot Fort,Second Largest wall of South Asia -
Basel City Walls in Basel, Switzerland -
Cairo great wall, Egypt -
Cheolli Jangseong, North Korea and China - Chester city walls in England, United Kingdom
- The Great Wall of China, China - part of UNESCO site 438,[4] it is the world's longest wall.[5]
- Walls of Constantinople in Turkey, including the Constantinian and Theodosian Walls
- Conwy town walls in Wales, United Kingdom
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Danevirke, Denmark - Derry city walls, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
- Diyarbakır city walls, Turkey.
- Walls of Dubrovnik in Croatia - part of UNESCO site 95[6]
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Erdene Zuu monastery wall in Mongolia - part of UNESCO site 1081[7] - King's Wall and Flodden Wall, in Edinburgh, Scotland (built c.1425–1560), part of UNESCO site 728 [8]
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Fossatum Africae -
Roman limes in Upper Germania, Lower Germania and Rhaetia, Germany - part of UNESCO site 430[2] -
Great Wall of Gorgan in Iran, (World's second longest wall[9]) - Hadrian's Wall in England - part of UNESCO site 430[2]
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Intramuros Walls, Manila, Philippines -
Walls of Jericho -
Jerusalem's Old City walls - part of UNESCO site 148[10] -
Walls of Kumbhalgarh in Rajasthan, India -
Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Russia - London Wall in England, United Kingdom
- Roman Walls of Lugo, Spain - part of UNESCO site 987[11]
- Arabic Walls of Niebla, Spain
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Long Walls linking the port of Piraeus to Athens, Greece - Long Wall (Thracian Chersonese)
- Offa's Dyke between Mercia (England) and Powys (Wales)
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Paczków defensive wall, Poland -
Sacsayhuamán, a fortress above Cuzco, Peru -
Serpent's Wall, the ancient walls in Ukraine - Servian Wall, in Rome
- Wall of Severus, between Roman Britain and [not recorded]
- Silesia Walls, Poland
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Sungbo's Eredo,built during 800–1000 AD in Ijebu Ode in Ogun State, southwest Nigeria -
Great Wall of Tlaxcala, mentioned in the history of Bernal Díaz del Castillo -
Trajan's Wall, in Dobruja, Romania -
Visby Ringwall, Gotland, Sweden - part of UNESCO site 731 [12] - Wat's Dyke parallel, for part of the distance, to Offa's Dyke, England:Wales.
- Western Wall in Jerusalem (also called the Wailing Wall, Kotel HaMa'aravi, and Al-Buraq Wall)
- City Wall of Xi'an in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China
- York city walls in England, United Kingdom
- Walls of Ston in Ston, Croatia
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Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi in Quảng Ngãi, Vietnam. - Ancient Kano City Walls, built around 1095 AD–1134 AD
Modern walls
View from the West Berlin side of graffiti art on the Berlin Wall in 1986. The wall's "death strip", on the east side of the wall, here follows the curve of the Luisenstadt Canal (filled in 1932).
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Atlantic Wall in France - Berlin Wall in Germany 1961–1989 (in concrete: 1975–1989)
- Communards' Wall in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris, France
- Democracy Wall, in Beijing (1978–1979)
- Inland Customs Line 2,500 miles (4,000 km) built 1843 onward in British India
- Lima City Walls in Lima, Peru
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Lennon Wall in Prague -
The Seawall in Portland, Oregon - Vietnam Veterans Memorial, often called the Wall
- Via Anelli Wall in Padua, Italy
Walls in use today
- Indian Line of Control fencing with Pakistan-occupied Kashmir
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Bangladesh–India border wall -
Moroccan Wall of Western Sahara - Sections of the Israeli West Bank barrier, West Bank
- Belfast Peace Lines in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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Korean Wall (alleged by DPRK), Korean Demilitarized Zone[13] -
Ceuta border fence, in Ceuta, Autonomous city of Spain -
Melilla border fence in Melilla, Autonomous city of Spain -
Nicosia Wall, along the Green Line on the island of Cyprus dividing North and South. - US-Mexico Border
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Frontier Closed Area along Hong Kong-China border -
Hungary-Serbia barrier -
Turkey-Syria barrier
Walls in contemporary music, art, and sports
- Green Monster, Fenway Park, Boston
- Tsoi Wall in Arbat Street, Moscow
- The Wall in SoHo, New York City
- The Wall In Concert (theatrical) - While based on a figment of a main character's imagination, the concerts in the tour for the Pink Floyd album The Wall featured a real wall of giant cardboard bricks between the band and the audience which was constructed, completed, spoliated and finally destroyed during the course of each show.
See also
- Gum Wall
- Separation barrier
- List of cities with defensive walls
- List of town walls in England and Wales
- List of fortifications
- Great Wall (astronomy)
- List of Egyptian castles, forts, fortifications and city walls
References
- ↑ "Stonske zidine". Citywallsdubrovnik.hr (in Croatian). Društvo prijatelja dubrovačke starine. Retrieved 2009-12-06.
- 1 2 3 UNESCO World Heritage Centre. "Frontiers of the Roman Empire". Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Centre. "Old Town of Ávila with its Extra-Muros Churches". Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Centre. "The Great Wall". Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ↑ Visual Encyclopedia of Earth. p. 154. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Centre. "Old City of Dubrovnik". Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Centre. "Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape". Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Centre. "Old and New Towns of Edinburgh". Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ↑ http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/staff/academic/esauer/pubs/iranian_walls.pdf
- ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Centre. "Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls". Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Centre. "Roman Walls of Lugo". Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Centre. "Hanseatic Town of Visby". Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ↑ Jon Herskovitz (December 31, 2007). "North Korea asks South to tear down imaginary wall". Reuters. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
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