List of walls

See List of fortifications for a list of notable fortified structures. For city walls in particular, see List of cities with defensive walls.

The Great Wall of China is the world's longest wall

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]

Modern defensive walls or border barriers

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).

Memorial walls

Walls in contemporary music, art, and sports

See also

References

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  2. UNESCO World Heritage Centre. "The Great Wall". Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  3. "Great Wall of Jin Dynasty (1115 - 1234): History, Structure, Relics". Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  4. UNESCO World Heritage Centre. "Frontiers of the Roman Empire". Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  5. Chaichian, Mohammad. 2014. Empires and Walls: Globalization, Migration, and Colonial Domination (Brill, pp.53-89). https://www.amazon.com/Empires-Walls-Globalization-Migration-Domination/dp/1608464229.
  6. http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/staff/academic/esauer/pubs/iranian_walls.pdf
  7. Chaichian, Mohammad. 2014. Empires and Walls: Globalization, Migration, and Colonial Domination (Brill, pp. 23-52).https://www.amazon.com/Empires-Walls-Globalization-Migration-Domination/dp/1608464229 .
  8. Chaichian, Mohammad. 2014. Empires and Walls: Globalization, Migration, and Colonial Domination (Brill, pp. 90-148).https://www.amazon.com/Empires-Walls-Globalization-Migration-Domination/dp/1608464229.
  9. Chaichian, Mohammad. 2014. Empires and Walls: Globalization, Migration, and Colonial Domination (Brill, pp.246-319). https://www.amazon.com/Empires-Walls-Globalization-Migration-Domination/dp/1608464229
  10. Jon Herskovitz (December 31, 2007). "North Korea asks South to tear down imaginary wall". Reuters. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
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