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List of cities with defensive walls


The following cities have or historically had defensive walls.

See List of Egypt castles, forts, fortifications and city walls.

Old Quarter of Panama City (a portion of the Wall still exists)

An 18th century wall, made by Hamengkubuwono the 1st from Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat Kingdom to protect the inner capital city from the Dutch and other enemy during the Mataram Kingdom Period. Today, the wall still exist almost 96% and being one of many landmark in the city.

On 17 February 1745, the Surakarta Kingdom moved to a new opened forest named Sala Village and build their Royal Residential Palace and urban area with a 15 kilometers long of "Beteng Kraton" or Palace wall around it. The wall was 90% exist.

Well known as Banten Kingdom's capital. The wall was destroyed by the Dutch during its colonial period in the way to ended the Banten reign. The city wall that left is only about 10% from the real appearance.

Trowulan was the capital of the former Majapahit Empire. When its glory period, the capital being a first European systemized ancient city (with city canal system for transportation and also large aisle and road for major transportation)in Indonesia, because Trowulan was developed in Majapahit's glory period in 13th-15th century. The wall was protecting the inner "Kraton" or royal palace and some important places. Today the wall can't be seen as the original appearance.

Almost every old city in Pakistan had a defensive wall. Much of these walls were destroyed by the British in order to refortify the cites. Few cities which were fortified are:

The first major fortification in Famagusta was the Othello Tower, which was built by the Lusignans in the 14th century and was later modified by the Venetians. The latter also built city walls in the 15th and 16th centuries, and they remain intact today.

The first fortifications in Nicosia were built in the 13th and 14th century. The Venetians demolished the medieval fortifications and replaced them with a circular bastioned enceinte in the late 1560s. The walls remain largely intact except for some breaches.

Many towns and cities still retain at least parts of their defensive walls, including:

An ancient Castrum Maris stood in Birgu since the 13th century. This was rebuilt as Fort St Angelo in the 16th and 17th centuries, when walls surrounding the entire city were built. Most of the fortifications are intact, except for a small part which was destroyed in a magazine explosion in 1806.


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