Frontier walls
Defensive Walls/Ramparts which marked the boundaries/frontier of an Empire or Kingdom (as opposed to "City Walls" around a town/city).
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Danube Limes | The many defensive walls of the military forts and around military and civil settlements are a testimony of the protection these places needed at the frontier of the Roman Empire against "the barbarians". | |
| 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 | ||
| Göbekli Tepe | A Roman era square building was discovered. It could have been a guard tower along the Limes Arabicus. | |
| Hedeby and Danevirke | Danevirke - between the Danish kingdom and the Frankish empire | |
| Lower German Limes | The defensive ditches and stone walls of the military forts are a testimony of the protection these places of border security needed at the frontier of the Roman Empire. | |
| Old City of Jerusalem | The wall surrounding the Old Town of Jerusalem partially served as the border between Israel and Jordan in 1948-1967 | |
| Silk Roads Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor | Part of Great Wall included | |
| Vatican City | Vatican City Wall between Italy and Holy See | |
| Wachau Cultural Landscape | Roman Walls in Mautern as part of the limes |
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