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==Gallery== ===Africa=== {{Gallery | title=African defensive walls | lines= | align=center | File:Defensive wall.jpg|A defensive wall in [[Taroudannt]], [[Morocco]] | File:Buhen3.jpg| Defensive walls around the ancient Egyptian settlement of [[Buhen]] | File:Naa Zaringa gooni.jpg|Remains of Naa Zaringa defense wall in [[Ghana]] }} ===Americas=== {{Gallery | title=American defensive walls | lines= | align=center | File:Aerial view of Castillo de San Cristobal, San Juan, Puerto Rico.jpg|[[Castillo_San_Cristóbal_(San_Juan)|Castillo San Cristóbal]] in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan]], [[Puerto Rico]], a [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Site]] | File:Muralla - Cartagena de Indias - Bolivar - ANDREA GAETANO.JPG|Defensive wall in [[Cartagena, Colombia|Cartagena]], [[Colombia]] | File:NDSAJDF18.JPG|Part of the wall in [[San Francisco de Campeche]], a [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Site]] | File:Quebec City Wall.jpg| Porte St. Louis, part of [[Ramparts of Quebec City]], the only remaining fortified city walls in North America north of Mexico }} ===Asia=== {{Gallery | title=Asian defensive walls | lines= | align=center | File:547.Walls.Jerusalem (cropped).jpg|[[Walls of Jerusalem]], [[Jerusalem]], [[Israel]] | File:Hattusa reconstructed wall.JPG|Wall of Hittite Capital [[Hattusa]] (reconstruction) | File:Крепость Нарын-Кала в Дербенте.jpg | [[Derbent|Derbent Walls]], late [[Sassanian Empire|Sassanian]] period | File:Ark fortress in Bukhara.jpg | Walls of the [[Ark of Bukhara]] | File:Deerawar Fort.jpg|[[Derawar Fort|Derawar Wall]] located in [[Bahawalpur]], [[Pakistan]] | File:Aerial view of Kumbhalgarh.jpg|Walls of [[Kumbhalgarh]] Fort | File:'Pakistan'-ibneazhar-400-yrs-old-rohtas-fort-near-dina-jehlum (255).jpg|Walls of the [[Rohtas Fort]] | File:Manilajf8528 29.JPG | The defensive walls of [[Intramuros]], the "Walled City" of old [[Manila]], [[Philippines]] }} ===China=== {{Gallery | title=Chinese defensive walls | lines= | align=center | File:Late Eastern Han pottery castle.JPG|Late [[Han dynasty]] castle (wubi) | File:Tang Mural of Zhang Yichao's departure.jpg|Fortress and soldiers training, [[Tang dynasty]] | File:元 唐棣 滕王閣圖 卷-The Pavilion of Prince Teng MET DP205767 CRD.jpg|Prince of Teng Pavilion, [[Yuan dynasty]] | File:Old City of Shanghai will walls and seafront.jpg|[[Old City of Shanghai]] with walls and seafront. | File:Beijing 2006 1-24.jpg|Top of the [[Beijing city wall]] | Image:灵江.JPG |[[Barbican]] of [[Linhai]] city wall | File:Chuxi tulou cluster.JPG|Walled [[tulou]] villages }} ===Europe=== {{Gallery | title=European defensive walls | lines= | align=center | File:Daorson, Bosnia and Herzegovina.jpg|[[Daorson]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]], built around a prehistoric central fortified settlement or [[acropolis]] (existed there cca. 17-16th to the end of the [[Bronze Age]], cca. 9-8th c. BCE), surrounded by [[Cyclopean masonry|cyclopean walls]] (similar to [[Mycenae]]) dated to the 4th c. BCE.<ref name="Urbano biće-1996-Brkljača-IIS">{{cite book |author1=Seka Brkljača |title=Urbano biće Bosne i Hercegovine |date=1996 |publisher=Međunarodni centar za mir, Institut za istoriju |location=Sarajevo |page=27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GnBPAAAAMAAJ |access-date=28 October 2021 |language=sh}}</ref><ref name="UNESCO-Stolac">{{cite web |title=The natural and architectural ensemble of Stolac |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5282/ |website=UNESCO World Heritage Centre |access-date=28 October 2021 |language=en}}</ref> | File:Ávila 24-8-2002.jpg|City walls in [[Ávila, Spain|Ávila]], [[Spain]], a UNESCO World Heritage Site | File:Svaty Jur Mestske hradby.jpg|The remaining section of city walls in town of [[Svätý Jur]], [[Slovakia]] | File:TallinnCityWalls.jpg|The [[walls of Tallinn]], [[Estonia]], a UNESCO World Heritage Site | File:Pdametz.JPG|A city gate with its towers, the defensive walls, and the city ditch from the 13th century in [[Metz]], [[France]] | File:Samuel Krepost - Ohrid, Macedonia.jpg|The medieval fortress overlooking the city of [[Ohrid]] in [[North Macedonia]] | File:Narikala fortress, Tbilisi, Georgia.jpg|[[Narikala fortress]], [[Tbilisi]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] | File:Vista desde el adarve dela Alcazaba de Badajoz.JPG| [[Badajoz]] ([[Spain]]). }} ===Roman=== {{Gallery | title=Roman defensive walls | lines= | align=center | File:The gate of the Gonio castle.jpg|The gate of the [[Gonio Fortress|Gonio]] castle | File:Muralla.Lugo.Galicia.jpg|[[Lugo]]'s [[Roman Walls of Lugo|Roman walls]], [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]], [[Spain]], a UNESCO World Heritage Site }} ===Archaeological Erbil Citadel wall=== {{Gallery | title= | lines= | align=center | File:Archaeological_Erbil_Citadel_wall_archaeological.jpg|Archaeological [[Erbil Citadel]] wall }}
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