Frontier walls

Defensive Walls/Ramparts which marked the boundaries/frontier of an Empire or Kingdom (as opposed to "City Walls" around a town/city).

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Frontier walls':

  • Derbent The 2 walls within which the city developed were "part of the northern limes of the Sasanian Persian Empire, which extended to east and west of the Caspian Sea"
  • Frontiers of the Roman Empire
  • Great Wall
  • Old City of Jerusalem The wall surrounding the Old Town of Jerusalem partially served as the border between Israel and Jordan in 1948-1967
  • Vatican City Vatican City Wall between Italy and Holy See
  • Wachau Cultural Landscape Roman Walls in Mautern as part of the limes