Roman Walls

Roman walls or Roman wall may refer to:

  • Limes, a border defense or delimiting system of Ancient Rome
  • Servian Wall, a wall built around Rome in the 4th century BC
  • Aurelian Walls, the later wall of Rome, built in the late 3rd century AD
  • York city walls, walls built around York when it was a Roman colony
  • Hadrian's Wall, a wall built in England at the edge of Roman conquest to keep out the Scots
  • Walls of Constantinople, a great defensive wall that kept various invaders until the Ottoman bombardment that render them useless, but defended the metropolitan capital during the fourth century C.E. till 1453
  • Anastasian Wall, a wall built by the eastern roman emperor to ensure extra defenses for Constantinople
  • Roman Walls of Lugo
  • London Wall
  • Chester city walls

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