Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Castle is sometimes used as a catch-all term for all kinds of fortifications, and as a result has been misapplied in the technical sense. An example of this is Maiden Castle which, despite the name, is an Iron Age hill fort which had a very different origin and purpose. [14]
Camelback Castle/Copenhaver Castle. The construction of the castle began in 1967 and was finished in 1977. The castle is located at 5050 E. Red Rock Dr. in Phoenix, Arizona. The architectural style of the castle is that of medieval Moorish. The castle has a dungeon, a drawbridge and a moat as well. [12]
This is a list of castles from around the world. By country. Africa. Castles in Ghana; Castles in South Africa; Americas Castles in Brazil; Castles in Canada; Castles ...
The first castles appeared in France in the 10th century, [3] and in England during the 11th century. A few castles are known to have been built in England before the Normans invaded in 1066; [4] a great many were built in the years following, the principal mechanism by means of which the Normans were able to consolidate their control over the ...
A castle built by Hugh de Lacy in 1180 to defend the river crossing, [15] [17] rebuilt by John de Clahull in 1181, [16] and once again rebuilt in 1547 by Edward Bellingham after its destruction in the 14th century by the Cavanaghs. The castle was sacked again by Cromwellian forces under Colonel Hewson in 1650 during the Irish Confederate Wars. [18]
List of castles in Bosnia and Herzegovina; List of castles in Bulgaria; List of castles in Croatia; List of castles in Cyprus; List of castles in Czech Republic; List of castles and palaces in Denmark ; List of castles in Estonia; List of castles in Finland; List of castles in France; List of castles in Georgia; List of castles in Germany; List ...
This category also includes buildings which never had a military purpose, but are styled as castles on romantic or stylistic grounds. Most such buildings date from the late 18th to early 20th centuries, and were a manifestation of the Gothic revival in architecture, which was in turn part of the Romantic movement in Western culture.
Castles have played an important military, economic and social role in Great Britain and Ireland since their introduction following the Norman invasion of England in 1066. . Although a small number of castles had been built in England in the 1050s, the Normans began to build motte and bailey and ringwork castles in large numbers to control their newly occupied territories in England and the ...