Walls And Fortresses

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH Post)
The Yellow Bastion
August 5, 2016
Yellow Bastion is a cannon fortress at the entrance of the walled city of Vratnik. It was built between 1727 and 1739 and served as one of the defense points against the Austro-Hungarian troops in 1878.

Spain
1000th Anniversary of the Kingdom of Almeria
January 14, 2016
The stamp depicts Alcazaba of Almería, a fortified complex of Taifa of Almería, a Muslim medieval Moorish kingdom located in what is now the province of Almería in Spain.

In the early Middle Ages, most of the fortresses in Russia were made of wood, as there was not enough stone and time.The fortess of Tver', Moscow, Smolensk and architectural reserve Kizhi

York has been surrounded by walls of one form or another since Roman times. It makes a marvelous hike to walk along the top of the sections of wall still standing, lower left in the stamp. And especially to admire the huge portals/gates. York has more miles of intact walls than any other city in England and they have been modified over the centuries. stamp belongs to 'Alphabet of Tourist Attractions' series, 2012

Kokorin castle (Hrad Kokorin) has appeared on several Czech stamps. Here it seen on a postmark and picture postcard from the time of German occupation.

The castle was built around 1320. By the beginning of the 20th century, it had fallen into disuse and disrepair. Then, from 1911 to 1918 it went through a large restoration.

The pictorial postmark was applied on May 16, 1944, and the Kokorin town postmark was applied the next day.

view of the castle of Kokorzhin by the artist Antonin Manes

The Kokorin fortress/castle is quite small but a perfect example of how the natural walls of a huge rock outcropping were used as a pedestal for defensive walls surrounding buildings. stamp of 1960, part of a set of eight with castle-fortresses.

Alexey, the painting by Manes must have been done at a time when there wasn't much forest surrounding the stronghold.

Hi, Kris. It is possible ... And in those old times there was still a bridge in front bergfried of the castle (a great find in my collection)

The NYSE is almost synonymous with Wall Street. The Dutch (New Amsterdam) fortification crossed the island of Manhattan at the level at which the street is now. In the old map one sees the wall, toward the right, with towers and the fort further south, toward the left. stamp for the 200th anniversary of the NYSE in 1996. (The 29 on the stamp is the denomination and has no relevance to 1929.)

Sir Edmund Andros (1637-1714), a native of London, was involved in the wars against the Dutch. He had just succeeded his father as bailiff of Guernsey, when he was chosen by the Duke of York to become the new governor of the provinces of New York and New Jersey. The English had taken over from the Dutch in 1664. The old map shows Fort Amsterdam and how walled in the city was in 1674, but settlements had already spread beyond the wall.

A merchant galleon anchors at the tip of Manhattan in the picture on the stamp for the 300th anniversary of New York City. At the left the walls of the fort and the windmill, in the background the silhouette of the city, 1953. The old map shows the wall, wide enough to walk on, and additional barriers at the water's edge.

Moldova
Discover Moldova
July 5, 2018
Soroca Fortress is a historic fort in the modern-day city of Soroca. The city has its origin as a medieval Genoese trade post. The current stone fortress was built between 1543 and 1546 under the rule of Petru Rares.

Archaeologists have not found even a trace of the presence of the Genoese in Soroca, but the architecture of the fortress is Italian. The fortress was founded by the Moldavian ruler Stephen the Great in the late 15th century, and foreign masters later built stone walls.

Derawar is a huge square fortress in the Bahawalpur province of Pakistan, in the Cholistan Desert. The walls and bastions stand up to thirty meters high. The fort was built in the 9th century. stamp of 1948 Can you imagine the work involved in making the bricks for a building like this - maybe deforestation for the wood needed for firing kilns contributed to desertification.

In Central Asia, the bricks did not burn on fire, they were dried in the sun. Fort Derawar is faced with dried bricks (the so-called adoba), and at the base are sandstone bricks