7 sentences with “fortifications”

Some of these fortifications survive to the present day, including Hadrian's Wall in northern England.

Constantinople enjoyed a cash economy, impregnable defensive fortifications and abundant food thanks to the availability of Anatolian grain and fish from the Aegean Sea.

- Large-scale warfare: Even before there were large cities, early towns were built with fortifications to ward off attackers. It is very likely that the first kings were war leaders allied with priests.

Later emperors also built massive fortifications, walls so strong that it took 1,000 years for an enemy to breach them (namely the Ottoman Turks, who finally conquered the city of Constantinople in 1453 CE).

The Viking raids were so sudden and so destructive that Charlemagne himself ordered the construction of fortifications at the mouth of the Seine River and began to expand his naval defences to try to defend against them.

Trajan's successor, the emperor Hadrian, built a huge series of fortifications to consolidate power on the frontiers - these eventually became known (in the 3rd century AD) as the coves, permanent garrisons and fortresses that were to serve as barriers to prevent "barbarian" incursions.

One of the remarkable archaeological features of the Minoans is that there is very little evidence of fortifications of their palaces or cities, unlike those of other ancient peoples, indicating that they were much less concerned about foreign invasion than neighbouring land empires because of their island locations.