Definition of FORTIFICATIONS. Meaning of FORTIFICATIONS. Synonyms of FORTIFICATIONS

- castles. Medieval-style fortifications were largely made obsolete by the arrival of cannons in the 14th century. Fortifications in the age of black powder...
- The Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications (also known as 'Stanwick Camp'), a huge Iron Age hill fort, sometimes but not always considered an oppidum, comprising...
- launching projectiles at the fortifications or defenders, it was also quite common to attempt to undermine the fortifications, causing them to collapse....
- between medieval and early modern fortification can be seen in the fortifications of Rhodes in Greece and the fortifications of Famagusta in Cyprus. Just as...
- defensive fortifications. Elvas, in Portugal is considered by some to be the best surviving example of the Dutch school of fortifications. When the newly-effective...
- The Fortifications of Derbent (Darband) are one of the fortified defense lines, some of which date to the times as early as those built by the Persian...
- Fortified Region of Metz for the Maginot Line fortifications shielding the Metz industrial region List of fortifications Mont Saint-Quentin in Moselle Valley Clayton...
- The fortifications of Frankfurt were a system of military defences of the German city of Frankfurt am Main which existed from the Middle Ages into the...
- The medieval fortifications dating from the 12th century The bastioned fortifications dating from the 17th century The ring fortification system dating...
- Czechoslovakia built a system of border fortifications as well as some fortified defensive lines inland, from 1935 to 1938 as a defensive countermeasure...