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Marine Drive was a toll road, and the impressive arched gateway was the toll gate. Date: 11 August 2009, 09:16:49: Source: originally posted to Flickr as Entrance To Marine Drive, Douglas Head, Isle Of Man. Author: Jim Linwood: Permission (Reusing this file)
City or area defended: The port city, river estuary or delta, or other general area the fort defended. For 1895 and later forts, this is the name of the Coast Defense Command (Harbor Defense Command after 1925) the fort was part of. "The" preceding a place name means the area defended is a river estuary or delta.
Surviving fragment of the Piri Reis map. The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives, housed in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. After the empire's 1517 conquest of Egypt, Piri Reis presented the 1513 world map to Ottoman Sultan Selim I (r. 1512 ...
Old map of Constantinople showing the location of the wall (border) of the city (Modern day Fatih) According to tradition, the city was founded as Byzantium by Greek colonists from the Attic town of Megara , led by the eponymous Byzas , around 658 BC. [ 1 ]
Thunder River is a river entirely within the Grand Canyon National Park.It flows southeast from its source near the North Rim of the canyon to Tapeats Creek.The 0.5-mile-long (0.80 km) river is one of the shortest in the United States, [a] and drops approximately 1,200 feet (370 m) over a series of waterfalls, making it the steepest river in the country.
J. R. R. Tolkien's design for his son Christopher's contour map on graph paper with handwritten annotations, of parts of Gondor and Mordor and the route taken by the Hobbits with the One Ring, and dates along that route, for an enlarged map in The Return of the King [5] Detail of finished contour map by Christopher Tolkien, drawn from his father's graph paper design.
Binar Bashi (a.k.a. Antipatris Fortress) Caesarea; Cafarlet (a.k.a. HaBonim Fortress) Casal des Plains; Castellum Regis; Château Pèlerin (a.k.a. Atlit Fortress etlit) Latrun; Le Destroit; Kal'at Al Mina (a.k.a. Ashdod-Yam Fortress) Masada (Metzada in Hebrew) Mirabel (a.k.a. Migdal Afek or Migdal Tsedek or majdal yaba in Arabic) Montfort Castle
The original means of access was by a steep path on the western side of the hillfort. The present entrance from the north-east is a later addition. [1] [2] Excavations in 1910 and 1954–56 revealed several periods of habitation at the site. The earliest elements date to the Iron Age, perhaps to the 1st or 2nd century. A pool within the ...