List of fortifications

This is a list of fortifications past and present, a fortification being a major physical defensive structure often composed of a more or less wall-connected series of forts.

Individual fortifications

listed by name

• A Famosa, built in the 16th century in Malacca by the Portuguese following their defeat of the Malaccan Sultante.
• Alpine Wall
• Anastasian Wall, built in the 5th century across the Thracian peninsula for the protection of Constantinople
• Antonine Wall, built by the Romans in northern Britain
• Atlantic Wall, constructed by the Germans during the Second World War
• Babylon Fortress in Old Cairo.
• Baggush Box
• Bar Lev Line
• Beijing city fortifications
• Brimstone Hill Fortress, Saint Thomas Middle Island, Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Cairo Citadel, Egypt
• Castle Islands Fortifications, Bermuda
• Cottonera Lines, Cottonera, Malta
• Czechoslovak border fortifications
• Danevirke
• Defense line of Amsterdam
• The Dutch Water Line, protecting the core provinces of the Netherlands, utilising the flooding of areas with water
• Fort Jesus, built in the 15th century in Mombassa by the Portuguese.
• Floriana Lines, Floriana, Malta
• Götavirke (Sweden)
• Great Wall of China, built as a protection from the northern steppe nomads
• Great Abatis Border
• Gustav Line, a fortified German defensive line in Italy during the Second World War
• Hadrian's Wall, built by the Romans in northern Britain
• Hexamilion wall, built across the Isthmus of Corinth
• Hilsea Lines, built to protect Portsmouth
• Hindenburg line
• Hindenburg Wall
• Intramuros, Manila
• Justinian Walls (in several locations along the borders of the Byzantine empire)
• Klis Fortress in Croatia
• Krepost Sveaborg, Imperial Russian First World War fortifications around Helsinki
• Limes Germanicus, Roman defensive line along the Rhine and in South-western Germany
• Lines of Torres Vedras
• London Wall, the Roman wall around the city
• Maginot Line, built by France in the 1930s
• Mannerheim Line, built by Finland across the Karelian Isthmus
• Metaxas Line, built during 1936-1940 by Greece along its frontier with Bulgaria
• Międzyrzecz Fortification Region
• Molotov Line
• Montsegur
• Newcastle town wall
• Offa's Dyke, an 8th-century earthwork dividing England and Wales
• Grim's Ditch
• Per Albin Line (Sweden)
• Petrovaradin fortress, in Northern Serbia, Austrian fortress from the 18th century.
• Rupel Fortress, in Northern Greece, later incorporated in the Metaxas Line
• Saxon Shore, in southern Britain and northern France
• Siegfried Line, constructed along Germany's western borders in the 1930s
• Stalin Line, built along the Soviet Union's western borders in the 1930s
• Suomenlinna, an 18th-century fortress in Helsinki
• Valletta Fortifications, Valletta, Malta
• Victoria Lines, Malta
• York city walls

Articles relating to cities

Europe

• Walls of Constantinople (modern day Istanbul), surrounding the city since the 4th century
• Walls of Dubrovnik, Croatia
• Walls of Lugo, Galicia, surrounding the city since the 1st century
• Walls of Ston, Croatia
• Fortifications of London, England
• Fortifications of Kotor, Montenegro
• Fortifications of Metz, France
• Fortifications of Portsmouth, England
• Defence lines of the Netherlands
• Lines of Communication (London), English Civil War fortifications built around London between 1642 and 1643.
• List of town walls in England and Wales

Africa

• Egypt

Main article: List of Egypt castles, forts, fortifications and city walls

See also

• List of buildings
• List of castles
• List of forts
• List of walls
• Martello tower
• List of cities with defensive walls
• List of established military terms (Engineering)