Fortification

If you'd like to walk for miles in concrete burrows built to defend an isolationist totalitarian regime that nobody wanted to attack, Kukes in northeastern Albania is the place for you.

Some 6,700 years ago the residents of the Solnitsata ("The Salt Pit") prehistoric town in today's Provadiya in Northeast Bulgaria built what were Europe's first fortress walls made of stone in order to protect their riches accumulated from the large-scale production of salt extracted from a massive rock salt deposit.

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Danish archaeologists have discovered a fort of Vikings built in the late 10th century in Borgring, south of Stockholm, according to Science Magazine.
 
The unusual architecture of the fort shows that the Vikings were not primitive robbers and pirates but technologically advanced people.
 

Stunning images of Kampia Canyon and the Castle of Oria in northern Chios are shown in a video provided by Panayotis Tzanetis.

The castle of Oria is located on an elevated rock, where the chapel of Agia Paraskevi overlooks the gorge of Kambia, as Chioswalking.gr mentions.

A bird’s-eye view of Istanbul’s city walls reveals the risk of devastation in the event of an earthquake for the 22-kilometer fortification due to neglect and dense residential areas around the structure

The fortified church of Saschiz, whose construction began in 1493 as a Tatar invasion was looming, is considered the first reduit-church in the area, a small-size stronghold built inside an outer fortification, and extensively stocked with weapons and subsistence means to resist a long time siege.

Photos by Dorina MATIS / AGERPRES

A foundation of Petre I Musat (1375-1391), the citadel, for the first time recorded on February 10, 1388, was equipped with interior walls around the old fort on an order of Stephen the Great.

BELGRADE – Water infrastructures destroyed by the heavy floods that hit Serbia recently need to be renewed as soon as possible as otherwise even mild precipitation can cause enormous damages, Goran Puzovic, director of the Srbijavode public enterprise, said Sunday.

SABAC - The situation in Sabac is serious, but stable nonetheless, with all previously taken measures for protecting the town from the rain-swollen Sava River still in force, Boban Birmancevic from the Sabac emergency headquarters said on Monday.

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