Separation Barriers in History
- Great Wall of China
- Iron Curtain, including:
- Berlin Wall
- inner German border
- German-Czech Border
- A counterpart wall to the Great Wall in the south called the Southern Great Wall was erected to protect and divide the Chinese from the 'southern barbarians' called Miao (meaning barbaric and nomadic).
- Great Wall of Gorgan
- Great Wall of Goryeo
- Hadrian's Wall
- Zanja de Alsina, built in the 1870s along the southern frontier of Argentina
- Antonine Wall
- Limes Germanicus
- Limes Saxoniae
- Maginot Line
- Gates of Alexander
- Offa's Dyke
- Danevirke
- Götavirke
- Willow Palisade
- Zasechnaya cherta
- Chinese city walls
- Panama Canal fence
- Great Hedge of India
- Between Russia (Soviet Union) and Finland/Norway there was a fence on the Soviet side along the entire border (more than 1000 km) during the Cold war. Along the Finnish border it was not so well guarded since Finland agreed to send back all Russians who escaped. The fence was located a few km from the border, and still partly remains, even though the border controls are open now. It is still forbidden according by Russian law to pass the border except through a border station.
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