Sieges

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Sieges':

  • Agrigento Romans 261BC
  • Ancient Nara Taira Clan 1180
  • Cartagena British 1741 (lifted)
  • Granada Ferdinand + Isabella 1492
  • Gwynedd (Harlech Castle) Prince Henry 1409, Edward IV 1461/8
  • Istanbul (Constantinople) Umayyads 674/8 (lifted) Umayyads 717/8 (lifted), 4th Crusade 1204, Mehmet 1453
  • Kazan Kremlin Russians 1552
  • Kiev Turcic Pechenegs 968 (lifted)
  • Masada Romans 73AD
  • Medieval City of Rhodes Demetrius of Macedonia 304/4BC (lifted), Ottomans 1480 (lifted), Ottomans 1522
  • Medina of Tunis During the 8th Crusade (1270)
  • Mexico City (Tenochtitlan) Cortez 1521
  • Old City of Dubrovnik Yugoslave Peoples army 1991/2 (Lifted)
  • Old City of Jerusalem Assyrians 721BC (lifted), Romans 70AD, 1st Crusaders 1099, Saladin 1187
  • Old Havana British 1762
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine Vikings 885/6
  • Québec 1690 New Englanders (lifted), General Wolfe 1759
  • Riga Napoleonic forces 1812 (lifted)
  • Site of Carthage Romans 149/6BC
  • Solovetsky Islands (Monastery) Tsar v "Old Believers" 1668/76
  • Syracuse Athenians 415BC (lifted), Romans 213/2BC, Arabs 878
  • Troy Acheans c1200BC
  • Tyre Alexander the Great 332BC
  • Valetta Turks 1565
  • Vienna Ottomans 1529 (lifted), 1683 (lifted)