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 (regional list: List of town walls in England and Wales).
Pre-modern fortifications
The Great Wall of China, China - part of UNESCO site 438,[2]. This is mostly referred to the Ming Great Wall, built from 1368 to 1644, measures 8,850 km long. Great Wall of Qi, the oldest of the Chinese Great Walls. Great Wall of Qin dynasty Great Wall of Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD), the longest Great Wall in history. Great Wall of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), built to defend against northern nomadic tribes, once spanning over 2,500 kilometers long. [3] Great Wall of the Khitan Liao dynasty Anastasian Wall in Turkey Antonine Wall in Scotland, United Kingdom - part of UNESCO site 430[4] Aurelian Walls of Rome Walls of Ston in Croatia Ranikot Fort, Also called 'The Great Wall of Pakistan', second largest wall of South Asia after Kumbhalgarh fort in India Cheolli Jangseong, North Korea and China Danevirke, Germany Fossatum Africae Roman limes in Upper Germania, Lower Germania and Rhaetia, Germany - part of UNESCO site 430[4] Great Wall of Gorgan in Iran, (World's second longest wall[5]) Hadrian's Wall in England - part of UNESCO site 430[4] Walls of Kumbhalgarh in Rajasthan, India Long Wall (Thracian Chersonese) Offa's Dyke between Mercia (England) and Powys (Wales) Serpent's Wall, the ancient walls in Ukraine Wall of Severus, between Roman Britain and [not recorded] Silesia Walls, Poland Sungbo's Eredo, built during 800–1000 AD in Ijebu Ode in Ogun State, southwest Nigeria Great Wall of Tlaxcala, mentioned in the history of Bernal Díaz del Castillo Trajan's Wall, in Dobruja, Romania Athanaric's Wall, Romania Wat's Dyke parallel, for part of the distance, to Offa's Dyke, England:Wales. Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi in Quảng Ngãi, Vietnam.
Modern walls
Atlantic Wall in France Berlin Wall in Germany 1961–1989 (in concrete: 1975–1989) Communards' Wall in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris, France Democracy Wall, in Beijing (1978–1979) Inland Customs Line 2,500 miles (4,000 km) built 1843 onward in British India Lima City Walls in Lima, Peru Lennon Wall in Prague Pine Grove Cemetery, second-longest contiguous stone wall in the world, in Lynn, Massachusetts The Wall in My Office in New York, NY The Seawall in Portland, Oregon Vietnam Veterans Memorial, often called the Wall Via Anelli Wall in Padua, Italy
Walls in use today
Indian Line of Control fencing Bangladesh–India border Sections of the Israeli West Bank barrier, West Bank Belfast Peace Lines in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK Korean Wall (alleged by DPRK), Korean Demilitarized Zone[6] Ceuta border fence, in Ceuta, Autonomous city of Spain Melilla border fence in Melilla, Autonomous city of Spain US-Mexico Border Frontier Closed Area along Hong Kong-China border Hungary-Serbia barrier Turkey-Syria barrier
Walls in contemporary music, art, and sports
- Die Gelbe Wand, Westfalenstadion in Dortmund
- Green Monster, Fenway Park, Boston
- Tsoi Wall in Arbat Street, Moscow
- The Wall in SoHo, New York City
- The Wall In Concert (theatrical) - While based on a figment of a main character's imagination, the concerts in the tour for the Pink Floyd album The Wall featured a real wall of giant cardboard bricks between the band and the audience which was constructed, completed, spoliated and finally destroyed during the course of each show.
See also
References
- ↑ "Stonske zidine". Citywallsdubrovnik.hr (in Croatian). Društvo prijatelja dubrovačke starine. Archived from the original on 2010-05-31. Retrieved 2009-12-06.
- ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Centre. "The Great Wall". Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ↑ https://www.travelchinaguide.com/china_great_wall/history/jin/. Retrieved 4 January 2017. Missing or empty
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(help) - 1 2 3 UNESCO World Heritage Centre. "Frontiers of the Roman Empire". Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ↑ http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/staff/academic/esauer/pubs/iranian_walls.pdf
- ↑ Jon Herskovitz (December 31, 2007). "North Korea asks South to tear down imaginary wall". Reuters. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
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