- also Soure,
Monsanto and Cardiga,
being equipped with
modern keep towers,
alambors and ****dings,
introduced for the
first time in Portugal.
These innovations...
-
Arabic al-anbiq "the cup/container
holding water", in turn from Gr****.
alambor: Two
meanings in
Spanish with two
different etymologies. 1) Embankment...
- many of the land-facing sections,
ending with a low palisade.: 22–23 An
alambor protecting the
steeper slopes beneath the
belvedere at Graça
Convent was...
-
defensive walls there is
usually a
sloped wall
reinforcement called an
alambor ('escarp'),
which made
attacking the
walls more difficult.: 86 The Torre...
- (Notes for a
redefinition of
Catalan literary studies), 1996,
which won the
Alambor prize) Mètodes i
ideologia en la
historiografia de la
literatura catalana...
- on the
north side of the fortress,
retains a
distinctive feature: the
Alambor, a
reinforced base for the
tower using a stone-slanted ramp. This solution...
- and
later to the
construction of the keep (around 1171), and
includes an
alambor, a
defensive feature to
mitigate attacks close to the walls. In 1171, the...
