Frontier walls

Connected Sites: 12

Definition
Defensive Walls/Ramparts which marked the boundaries/frontier of an Empire or Kingdom (as opposed to "City Walls" around a town/city).

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Connected Sites

  • Wachau Cultural Landscape
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.37
    235
    12
    Roman Walls in Mautern as part of the limes
  • Vatican City
    Inscribed: 1984
    4.30
    613
    9
    Vatican City Wall between Italy and Holy See
  • Derbent
    Derbent
    Russia
    Inscribed: 2003
    2.97
    18
    2
    The 2 walls within which the city developed were "part of the northern limes of the Sasanian Persian Empire, which extended to east and west of the Caspian Sea"
  • Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
    Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
    China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
    Inscribed: 2014
    3.02
    196
    9
    Part of Great Wall included
  • Old City of Jerusalem
    Inscribed: 1981
    4.36
    275
    12
    The wall surrounding the Old Town of Jerusalem partially served as the border between Israel and Jordan in 1948-1967
  • Lower German Limes
    Lower German Limes
    Germany, Netherlands
    Inscribed: 2021
    1.84
    198
    8
    The defensive ditches and stone walls of the military forts are a testimony of the protection these places of border security needed at the frontier of the Roman Empire.
  • Hedeby and Danevirke
    Inscribed: 2018
    2.23
    130
    6
    Danevirke - between the Danish kingdom and the Frankish empire
  • Great Wall
    Inscribed: 1987
    4.45
    336
    14
  • Göbekli Tepe
    Inscribed: 2018
    3.77
    68
    6
    A Roman era square building was discovered. It could have been a guard tower along the Limes Arabicus.
  • Frontiers of the Roman Empire
    Frontiers of the Roman Empire
    Germany, United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1987
    2.81
    347
    20
  • Danube Limes
    Danube Limes
    Austria, Germany, Slovakia
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.06
    246
    6
    The many defensive walls of the military forts and around military and civil settlements are a testimony of the protection these places needed at the frontier of the Roman Empire against "the barbarians".
  • Dacian Limes
    Inscribed: 2024
    2.01
    62
    3
    Roman