The site of the Roman fortress lies under the foundations of York Minster, and excavations in the undercroft have revealed some of the original walls.
The outer gate of the fortress lies in the northwestern side of the outer ward, originally within a small recess in the outer curtain wall, protected by a portcullis.
Nonnebakken, one of Denmark's former Viking ring fortresses, lay to the south of the river.
To build the skyscraper city, the authorities dynamited an entire mountain and the Ottoman era Ajyad Fortress that lay on top of it.
Traces of medieval and Ottoman towns remain to this day, including a remnant of the old Ottoman fortress wall, known today as the "Turkish Wall" or "Filibey's Fort", lying next to the Tvrđa access road.
Bilbays, a former capital of Al-Sharqiyyah and a medieval fortress town, lies in the southeast, 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Cairo.
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Despite their meeting, the Christians forces proceeded to lay siege on the fortress of Damietta.
After Ibrahim's death, Suleiman sent 8,000 men under the command of Murat-beg Tardić (Amurat Vaivoda), a Croatian who had been born in Šibenik, to go and lay siege to Klis fortress (Clissa), and fight against Kružić.
Albania's most distinguished novelist tells the story of fifteenth-century Ottoman invaders who lay siege to an Albanian fortress and find their assaults thwarted.
