A fortification, also called a fort, fortress, fastness or stronghold, is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare and used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The cited article says the term is derived from the Latin fortis, strong, and facere, to make, that from very early history to modern times defensive walls have often been necessary for cities to survive invasion and conquest, that some settlements of the Indus Valley Civilization were the first small cities to be fortified, and that in ancient Greece large cyclopean stone walls had been built. Buildings recorded in the atlas as forts and fortresses are grouped under this concept.
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A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction
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A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime.
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designed the walls of the Kazan Kremlin and the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Kazan in 1561 and 1562
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among the architects of the Red Fort in Delhi (1639-1648)
Rajput architecture (Wikipedia)
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Rajput architecture is an architectural style associated with the forts and palaces of the many Rajput rulers.
Kasbah (Wikipedia)
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'fortress', Arabic pronunciation: [qasˤaba], Maghrebi Arabic: [qasˤba]), also spelled qasbah, qasba, qasaba, or casbah, is a fortress, most commonly a North African citadel or fortified quarter of a city.
Architecture of Urartu (Wikipedia)
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The Urartians are known for their fortresses, temples, and water management systems, which were integral to their administrative and military infrastructure.
Somali architecture (Wikipedia)
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Somali architecture is the engineering and designing of multiple different construction types such as stone cities, castles, citadels, fortresses, mosques, temples, aqueducts, lighthouses, towers and tombs during the ancient, medieval and early modern periods in Somalia and other regions inhabited by Somalis, as well as the fusion of Somalo-Islamic architecture with Western designs in contemporary times.
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In architecture the style is typically seen in fortresses and churches.
Architecture of Mesopotamia (Wikipedia)
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Brick was the ordinary building material, and with it cities, forts, temples, and houses were constructed.
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