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... of daylight hours , and the impossibility of guaranteeing 35 A late nineteenth - century view of the Golden Gate and the Seven Towers Palace , the latter incorporating four of the towers of the Land Walls of Constantinople .
... of daylight hours , and the impossibility of guaranteeing 35 A late nineteenth - century view of the Golden Gate and the Seven Towers Palace , the latter incorporating four of the towers of the Land Walls of Constantinople .
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land has already been mentioned , and so has how they established first motte - and - bailey , and then stone castles as bases for the exploitation of their domains . Central Europe and Italy , however , presented a different picture .
land has already been mentioned , and so has how they established first motte - and - bailey , and then stone castles as bases for the exploitation of their domains . Central Europe and Italy , however , presented a different picture .
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A similar order of Knights Templars had been founded in 1191 for the protection of pilgrims travelling to and from the Holy Land . Like all such Orders , they took monastic vows of poverty , chastity and obedience , but were also ...
A similar order of Knights Templars had been founded in 1191 for the protection of pilgrims travelling to and from the Holy Land . Like all such Orders , they took monastic vows of poverty , chastity and obedience , but were also ...
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| Title | Stronghold: A History of Military Architecture |
| Author | Martin Hubert Brice |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Schocken Books, 1985 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Dec 2007 |
| ISBN | 0805239383, 9780805239386 |
| Length | 192 pages |
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