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Moat, the Glossary

A moat is a deep, broad ditch dug around a castle, fortification, building, or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence.^[1]

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.

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Angkor Wat

Angkor Wat (អង្គរវត្ត, "City/Capital of Temples") is a Hindu-Buddhist temple complex in Cambodia.

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Arkansas

Arkansas is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States.

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Artillery

Artillery are ranged weapons that launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms.

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Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: x16px, māt Aššur) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC, which eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC to the 7th century BC.

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Audubon

The National Audubon Society (Audubon) is an American non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation of birds and their habitats.

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Bastion

A bastion or bulwark is a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification, most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the corners of the fort. Moat and bastion are castle architecture and engineering barrages.

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Bastion fort

A bastion fort or trace italienne (a phrase derived from non-standard French, literally meaning 'Italian outline') is a fortification in a style that evolved during the early modern period of gunpowder when the cannon came to dominate the battlefield.

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Battering ram

A battering ram is a siege engine that originated in ancient times and was designed to break open the masonry walls of fortifications or splinter their wooden gates.

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Beaux-Arts architecture

Beaux-Arts architecture was the academic architectural style taught at the in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century.

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Becan

Becan (Spanish: Becán) is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.

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Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

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Benin City

Benin City is the capital and largest city of Edo State, southern Nigeria.

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Benin Moat

The Benin Moat, also known as the Benin Iya, or Walls of Benin, are a series of massive earthworks encircling Benin City in Nigeria's Edo State.

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Bodiam Castle

Bodiam Castle is a 14th-century moated castle near Robertsbridge in East Sussex, England.

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Bonsai

Bonsai (tray planting) is the Japanese art of growing and shaping miniature trees in containers, developed from the traditional Chinese art form of penjing (盆景).

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Brisbane

Brisbane (Meanjin) is the capital of the state of Queensland and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million.

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Buhen

Buhen, alternatively known as Βοὥν (Bohón) in Ancient Greek, stands as a significant ancient Egyptian settlement on the western bank of the Nile, just below the Second Cataract in present-day Northern State, Sudan.

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Building

A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof and walls, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory.

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Bullengraben

The Bullengraben is a ditch in Berlin’s glacial valley, which has been in use since the 7th century.

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Caerlaverock Castle

Caerlaverock Castle is a moated triangular castle first built in the 13th century.

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Cambodia

Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.

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Car bomb

A car bomb, bus bomb, van bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive device designed to be detonated in an automobile or other vehicles.

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Carl Hagenbeck

Carl Hagenbeck (10 June 1844 – 14 April 1913) was a German merchant of wild animals who supplied many European zoos, as well as P. T. Barnum.

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Carolands

Carolands Chateau is a, 4.5 floor, 98 room mansion on in Hillsborough, California, United States.

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Castello Estense

The Castello Estense ('Este castle') or castello di San Michele ('St. Michael's castle') is a moated medieval castle in the center of Ferrara, northern Italy.

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Castle

A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Moat and castle are masonry.

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Catawba Nuclear Station

The Catawba Nuclear Station is a nuclear power plant located on a peninsula, called "Concord Peninsula", that reaches out into Lake Wylie, in York, South Carolina, US.

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Chiang Mai

Chiang Mai is the largest city in northern Thailand, the capital of Chiang Mai province and the second largest city in Thailand.

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Classicism

Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate.

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Dam

A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams.

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Defensive wall

A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors. Moat and defensive wall are castle architecture.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.

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Ditch (fortification)

In military engineering, a ditch is an obstacle designed to slow down or break up an attacking force, while a trench is intended to provide cover to the defenders.

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Drawbridge

A drawbridge or draw-bridge is a type of moveable bridge typically at the entrance to a castle or tower surrounded by a moat. Moat and drawbridge are castle architecture.

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Dry Tortugas National Park

Dry Tortugas National Park is an American national park located about west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico, in the United States.

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East Sussex

East Sussex is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Egeskov Castle

Egeskov Castle (Egeskov Slot) is located near Kværndrup, in the south of the island of Funen, Denmark.

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Embassy of the United States, London

The Embassy of the United States of America in London is the diplomatic mission of the United States in the United Kingdom.

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Ferrara

Ferrara (Fràra) is a city and comune (municipality) in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, capital of the province of Ferrara.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Forbidden City

The Forbidden City is the imperial palace complex in the center of the Imperial City in Beijing, China.

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Fort Bourtange

Fort Bourtange (Vesting Bourtange) is a fort in the village of Bourtange, Groningen, Netherlands.

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Fort Brockhurst

Fort Brockhurst is one of the Palmerston Forts, in Gosport, England, and a scheduled monument.

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Fort Jay

Fort Jay is a coastal bastion fort and the name of a former United States Army post on Governors Island in New York Harbor, within New York City.

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Fort Jefferson (Florida)

Fort Jefferson is a former U.S. military coastal fortress in the Dry Tortugas National Park of Florida.

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Fort Lytton

Fort Lytton is a heritage-listed 19th century coastal fort in the suburb of Lytton in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Fort Pulaski National Monument

Fort Pulaski National Monument is located on Cockspur Island between Savannah and Tybee Island, Georgia.

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Fortification

A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. Moat and fortification are engineering barrages.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Governors Island

Governors Island is a island in New York Harbor, within the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Gracht

Gracht (plural: grachten) is a Dutch word for a canal within a city.

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Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China (literally "ten thousand ''li'' long wall") is a series of fortifications that were built across the historical northern borders of ancient Chinese states and Imperial China as protection against various nomadic groups from the Eurasian Steppe.

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Groningen (province)

Groningen (Grunn; Grinslân) is the northeasternmost province of the Netherlands.

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Ha-ha

A ha-ha (hâ-hâ or saut de loup), also known as a sunk fence, blind fence, ditch and fence, deer wall, or foss, is a recessed landscape design element that creates a vertical barrier (particularly on one side) while preserving an uninterrupted view of the landscape beyond from the other side.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated to Hants.) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Hikone Castle

is a Japanese Edo-period Japanese castle located in the city of Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.

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Hillfort

A hillfort is a type of fortified refuge or defended settlement located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage.

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Hsinchu

Hsinchu is a city located in northwestern Taiwan.

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Improvised fighting vehicle

An improvised fighting vehicle is an ad hoc combat vehicle resulting from modified or upgraded civilian or military non-combat vehicle, often constructed and employed by civilian insurgents, terrorists, rebels, mobsters, guerrillas, partisans, drug cartels, criminal organizations or other forms of non-state militias and irregular armies.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Japanese castle

are fortresses constructed primarily of wood and stone.

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Jumping spider

Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae.

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Landskrona Citadel

Landskrona Citadel (Citadellet or Landskrona slott) is situated in Landskrona, Scania, southern Sweden.

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Lissingen Castle

Lissingen Castle (Burg Lissingen) is a well-preserved former moated castle dating to the 13th century.

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Mandalay

Mandalay is the second-largest city in Myanmar, after Yangon.

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Matsumoto Castle

, originally known as Fukashi Castle, is one of Japan's premier historic castles, along with Himeji and Kumamoto.

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Maya peoples

The Maya are an ethnolinguistic group of indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica.

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Middle English

Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century.

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Military

A military, also known collectively as an armed forces, are a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare.

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Miramar (mansion)

Miramar is a French neoclassical-style mansion on bordering Bellevue Avenue on Aquidneck Island at Newport, Rhode Island.

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Mississippian culture

The Mississippian culture was a Native American civilization that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 to 1600, varying regionally.

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Moated settlements

A is a human settlement (village) surrounded by a moat.

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Moot hill

A moot hill or mons placiti (statute hill) is a hill or mound historically used as an assembly or meeting place, as a moot hall is a meeting or assembly building, also traditionally to decide local issues.

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Moreton Bay

Moreton Bay is a bay located on the eastern coast of Australia from central Brisbane, Queensland.

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Motte-and-bailey castle

A motte-and-bailey castle is a European fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised area of ground called a motte, accompanied by a walled courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade.

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Muiden Castle

Muiden Castle (Dutch: Muiderslot) is a castle in the Netherlands, located at the mouth of the Vecht river, some 15 kilometers southeast of Amsterdam, in Muiden, where it flows into what used to be the Zuiderzee.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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Nagano Prefecture

is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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Neck ditch

A neck ditch (Halsgraben), sometimes called a throat ditch, is a dry moat that does not fully surround a castle, but only bars the side that is not protected by natural obstacles. Moat and neck ditch are castle architecture.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Harbor

New York Harbor is a bay that covers all of the Upper Bay and an extremely small portion of the Lower Bay.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Nubia

Nubia (Nobiin: Nobīn) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between the first cataract of the Nile (south of Aswan in southern Egypt) and the confluence of the Blue and White Niles (in Khartoum in central Sudan), or more strictly, Al Dabbah.

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Old French

Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century.

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Parkin Archeological State Park

Parkin Archeological State Park, also known as Parkin Indian Mound, is an archeological site and state park in Parkin, Cross County, Arkansas.

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Polygonal fort

A polygonal fort is a type of fortification originating in France in the late 18th century and fully developed in Germany in the first half of the 19th century.

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Portia fimbriata

Portia fimbriata, sometimes called the fringed jumping spider, is a jumping spider (family Salticidae) found in Australia and Southeast Asia.

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Portia labiata

Portia labiata is a jumping spider (family Salticidae) found in Sri Lanka, India, southern China, Burma (Myanmar), Malaysia, Singapore, Java, Sumatra and the Philippines.

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Queensland

Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.

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Qufu

Qufu is a city in southwestern Shandong province, East China.

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Rafah

Rafah (رفح) is a Palestinian city in the southern Gaza Strip.

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Robertsbridge

Robertsbridge is a village in the civil parish of Salehurst and Robertsbridge, and the Rother district of East Sussex, England.

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Savannah, Georgia

Savannah is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia and the county seat of Chatham County.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.

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Siege tower

A Roman siege tower or breaching tower (or in the Middle Ages, a belfryCastle: Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections. Dorling Kindersley Pub (T); 1st American edition (September 1994). Siege towers were invented in 300 BC.) is a specialized siege engine, constructed to protect assailants and ladders while approaching the defensive walls of a fortification.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moat

Also known as Castle moat, Cross ditch, Expanded moat, Moated, Moats.

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