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Meaning of "defensive tower"

A defensive tower, also known as a fortification or stronghold, is a structure built with the purpose of providing protection and defense against enemy attacks. These towers were commonly erected in ancient and medieval times to guard strategic positions or territories. Defensive towers often featured thick stone walls, battlements, and other defensive mechanisms

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The fort was characterized by a single defensive tower.
Typical Svaneti defensive tower houses are found throughout the village.
The churchtower is both a watchtower and a defensive tower.
Today the defensive Tower is almost completely covered with vegetation.
The walls with defensive tower.
Its construction also indicates that it was probably built as a defensive tower.
During the twelfth century a round defensive tower was built on Kalmarsund and a harbour constructed.
The tower was primarily conceived as a guard and a defensive tower.
During the twelfth century a round defensive tower was built on Kalmarsund and a harbour constru.
Apart from that the bergfried usually also served generally as a defensive tower.
Njegoš countered by building a defensive tower overlooking Lake Scutari.
The cross can now be seen on the first floor of the defensive tower.
A defensive tower that stood on the site of the current Pontevedra City Hall.
The Schreierstoren is the only remaining defensive tower.
He then built a large, defensive tower around which modern Caserta was built.

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A construction like this is found only in the British Isles in a similar defensive tower.
The Puerta de Alarcones is a defensive tower from the Islamic era.
The Road passes the old fortifications through Floriańska Gate under a defensive tower.
The town was born as a defensive tower of Mascali County, in the Middle Ages.
The entrance presents a square-shaped defensive tower.
The central square defensive tower dates from the 13th century.
It seems to have been built originally as a free-standing defensive tower.
In the 19th century the defensive tower was demolished.
Consequently, the Mössingen cemetery was attached with a high Wall and a defensive tower.
Torre del Oro is a defensive tower dating from the 13th century.
Of the medieval buildings, a medieval hall and a defensive tower remain.
The Torre Bermeja ( ) is a defensive tower located on the Playa de la Barrosa.
Helped by the king, he built cells for the monks, a defensive tower and a church.
A 15th-century defensive tower guards the Old Town, a UNESCO site, in the cultural hub of Estonia.
It is a fortified manor house with two parts, the defensive tower and main building.
Built in the 13th century, these walls are thought to have supported a substantial defensive tower.
Cabaças Tower ( Torre das Cabaças ), Ancient defensive tower of the mediaeval wall of the city.
It dates back to the 12th century when it already had a defensive tower.
The tower itself is an octagonal 17th century defensive tower built in red brick.
On the west wall, after the water tank, we find a second defensive tower.
Herdegen I of Winternheim might have built the four-sided defensive tower in the middle before 1150.
Medieval town wall and Klingentorturm, a defensive tower.
It 's a fortress with a pair of churches and an 11th-century defensive tower inside.

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