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A line of fortifications in warfare
The
Victoria Lines , a line of fortification in
Malta built to divide the sparsely populated north of the island from the densely populated south
Reconstruction of a
Scythian defense line built around 339 BC in modern-day
Hungary
A defense line or fortification line is a geographically recognizable line of troops and armament, fortified and set up to protect a high-value location or defend territory.
A
defense line may be based on natural difficult
terrain features, such as rivers or marshes, mountain ranges, or coastlines; temporary
field fortification works such as
trenches ; and/or more permanent
fortifications such as
fortresses and
bunkers .
List of defense lines
Derbent Walls
Some notable defense lines include:
Historical
[a]
Great Wall of China , China
Sassanian defense lines
Defense lines of the Netherlands
Median Wall (before 401 BC)
Limes Germanicus , Germany
Hadrian's Wall , United Kingdom (122)
Antonine Wall , United Kingdom (142)
Offa's Dyke , Wales (early 5th century)
The Pale , Ireland (late 12th century)
Serpent's Wall , Ukraine
The
Zasechnaya cherta [
ru ] (
Russian : Засечная черта )) on the southern and eastern borders of the Tsardom of Russia
Western Russian fortresses , Russia
Civil War Defenses of Washington , United States
Victoria Lines , Malta (1875)
Hindenburg Line , France (1916)
Maginot Line , France (1929)
Schuster Line , Luxembourg
Metaxas Line , Greece (1936-1941)
Mannerheim Line , Finland (1939–1940)
K-W Line , Belgium (1939)
Siegfried Line , Germany
Gothic Line , Italy
Winter Line (
Gustav ,
Bernhardt and
Hitler Lines), Italy (1943-1944)
Panther–Wotan line , Russia (1943)
Pusan Perimeter , South Korea (1950)
McNamara Line , South Vietnam (1966)
Bar Lev Line , Sinai Peninsula (1973)
Modern
Notes
^ Where given, dates in parentheses indicate when construction began.
References