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Trakai Island Castle (Lithuanian: Trakų salos pilis) is an island castle located in Trakai, Lithuania, on an island in Lake Galvė. The construction of the stone castle was begun in the 14th century by Kęstutis , and around 1409 major works were completed by his son Vytautas the Great , who died in this castle in 1430.
Raki (Albanian definite form: rakia) (a type of rakia) is a traditional drink in Albania.[6] [7] Until the 19th century, meyhanes would serve wine or meze. [8]Rakia is deeply connected to the Albanian tradition and as such it is produced everywhere in Albania and Kosovo, sometimes professionally and sometimes in an artisanal way.
The largest producer of raki is Diageo; Yeni Rakı is the largest brand. [4] In many East Mediterranean and Balkan countries, the term raki is widely used to describe similar distilled alcoholic beverages. This shared terminology dates back to the Ottoman Empire, where "raki" became a generic term for distilled spirits. During Ottoman rule, the ...
Encastellation (sometimes castellation, which can also mean crenellation) is the process whereby the feudal kingdoms of Europe became dotted with castles, from which local lords could dominate the countryside of their fiefs and their neighbours', and from which kings could command even the far-off corners of their realms.
al-Raki settlement and copper production; al-Rustaq, al-multi-period settlement and burial area; al-Salayli, multi-period burial and metal-producing site; al-Saruj Late Iron Age grave; al-Shariq 2 trilith site; al-Wasit Late Bronze Age settlement and burial area; Amla/al-Fuwaydah Pre-Islamic recent period burial ground; Bandar Jissa 1 Late Iron ...
Vojinović Tower. Today, of the entire fort survived only donjon tower that the people called Vojinović Tower with part of wall in the form of a square. On that walls (thick about 3 m), the remains of machicolation, putlog holes or hoardings can be seen, and in addition to the closed ground, had the floor, over which there was an open top of the tower with battlement on.
The castle was named Shahbulag ('Shah's spring', also Shah-Bulaghi) [2] after a nearby spring bearing the same name located around the lower part of the Khachinchay (Khachen) River. [3] Before the construction of the castle, the area around it was known as Tarnagyut, which, according to Armenian archaeologist Hamlet Petrosyan , is a corruption ...
The ishigaki of Ōzu Castle. Burdock piling (牛蒡積み, gobouzumi) is an advanced Japanese technique for building stone walls, named after the resemblance of the rough stones used to the ovate shapes of the blossoms of Japanese burdock plants.