Stronghold facts for kids
Stronghold means castle or any other strongly fortified place. The history of fortified buildings reaches from antiquity to modern times. In medieval Europe, the castle was the most common type of stronghold and often the residence of the king or territorial lord. The Maginot Line is an example of a 20th century stronghold.
Stronghold is also the name of a small video game franchise consisting of several castle-sim games made by Firefly Studios.
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Krak des Chevaliers is one of the best-preserved Crusader castles.
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Fort Bourtange star fort, restored to 1750 situation, Groningen (province), Netherlands.
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Blast pen protecting a Supermarine Spitfire in Italy, circa 1944
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Fortifications on the Iraq-Iran Border, viewed from the ISS, 2014
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Srebrenik Fortress in Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the Bosnia's best-preserved medieval castles dating from at least 1333.
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A model of the prehistoric town of Los Millares 3000 BC Spain, with its walls.
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Artists impression of the battlements at Buhen fortress in Egypt about 1800BC
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Model of Ishtar Gate and part of the walls of Babylon built by Nebuchadnezzar
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Heuneburg, a Celtic fort in Germany 600 BC, with mudbrick walls
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Oppidum of Manching Germany 200 BC with its 7.2 km walls
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Aurelian Walls Rome, with up to 16 meters tall walls
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The Great Wall of China.
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The defensive wall of Hispanic Colonial Intramuros in Manila, Philippines.
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Spiš Castle in Slovakia - one of the largest castles in Central Europe. An aerial photography documents its enlargement in the course of 11th - 17th centuries.
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Jajce is a walled city in Bosnia and Herzegovina, protected by two rivers and long walls.
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Narva castle and bastions (Estonia) from the 13th century and part of Ivangorod stronghold (Russia) on the left
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Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork: the world’s largest brick gothic castle, in Poland
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The fortified city of Valença, Portugal as seen from across the Minho River (Portugal's northern border with Spain)
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The well preserved Bulgarian medieval fort Baba Vida.
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Table of Fortification, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia.
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Austro-Hungarian Fort 31 Benedykt of Kraków fortress
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Austro-Hungarian Fort I "Salis Soglio" of Przemyśl fortress
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Entry, Fort d'Uxegney
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Aerial photograph, Fort de Douaumont, Verdun (1916).
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Dragon's teeth—tank traps in the Eifel
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Bunkers in Albania
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Engineers fill Hesco bastions at a forward operating base in Afghanistan.
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This historical reconstruction, of an American frontier fort, featured a log stockade, with a sturdy blockhouse built, as a temporary, defensive structure, on the western frontier.
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Fort Snelling on, the confluence of, the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, in 1844, in a painting by John Caspar Wild (1804-1846).
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See also
In Spanish: Fortificación para niños
