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The Royal Walls of Ceuta (Murallas Reales de Ceuta) are a line of fortification in Ceuta, an autonomous Spanish city in north Africa.[1]

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  1. 21 relations: Ancient Carthage, Ancient Rome, Artillery battery, Bien de Interés Cultural, Ceuta, Counterguard, Ditch (fortification), Enlightenment in Spain, Fortification, Hornwork, Iberian Union, Isthmus, Kingdom of Portugal, Napoleonic Wars, North Africa, Outwork, Portuguese conquest of Ceuta, Ravelin, Sieges of Ceuta (1694–1727), Spain, 12 Treasures of Spain.

  2. 10th-century fortifications
  3. Bien de Interés Cultural landmarks in Ceuta
  4. City walls in Spain
  5. Military installations closed in the 19th century
  6. Portuguese colonial architecture in Spain

Ancient Carthage

Ancient Carthage (𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕) was an ancient Semitic civilisation based in North Africa.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Artillery battery

In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit or multiple systems of artillery, mortar systems, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers, surface-to-surface missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, etc., so grouped to facilitate better battlefield communication and command and control, as well as to provide dispersion for its constituent gunnery crews and their systems.

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Bien de Interés Cultural

A bien de interés cultural is a category of the heritage register in Spain.

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Ceuta

Ceuta (Sabta; Sabtah) is an autonomous city of Spain on the North African coast.

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Counterguard

The counterguard (Kontergarde, contre-garde) is an outwork in a bastioned fortification system that usually comprises only a low rampart and which is sited in front of the actual fortress moat that runs around the bastions or ravelins.

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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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Enlightenment in Spain

The ideas of the Age of Enlightenment (Ilustración) came to Spain in the 18th century with the new Bourbon dynasty, following the death of the last Habsburg monarch, Charles II, in 1700.

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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.

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Hornwork

A hornwork is an element of the Italian bastion system of fortification.

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Iberian Union

The Iberian Union is a historiographical term used to describe the dynastic union of the Monarchy of Spain, which in turn was itself a personal union of the crowns of Castile and Aragon, and the Kingdom of Portugal, and of their respective colonial empires, that existed between 1580 and 1640 and brought the entire Iberian Peninsula except Andorra, as well as Portuguese and Spanish overseas possessions, under the Spanish Habsburg monarchs Philip II, Philip III, and Philip IV.

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Isthmus

An isthmus (isthmuses or isthmi) is a narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated.

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Kingdom of Portugal

The Kingdom of Portugal was a monarchy in the western Iberian Peninsula and the predecessor of the modern Portuguese Republic.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.

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North Africa

North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.

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Outwork

An outwork is a minor fortification built or established outside the principal fortification limits, detached or semidetached.

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Portuguese conquest of Ceuta

The Portuguese conquest of Ceuta took place on 21 August 1415, between Portuguese forces under the command of King John I of Portugal and the Marinid sultanate of Morocco at the city of Ceuta.

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Ravelin

A ravelin is a triangular fortification or detached outwork, located in front of the innerworks of a fortress (the curtain walls and bastions).

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Sieges of Ceuta (1694–1727)

The sieges of Ceuta, also known as the thirty-year siege, were a series of blockades by Moroccan forces of the Spanish-held city of Ceuta on the North African coast.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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12 Treasures of Spain

The 12 Treasures of Spain (12 Tesoros de España) was a project that selected the purported "Twelve Treasures of the Kingdom of Spain".

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See also

10th-century fortifications

Bien de Interés Cultural landmarks in Ceuta

City walls in Spain

Military installations closed in the 19th century

Portuguese colonial architecture in Spain

References

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

Also known as Fortifications of Ceuta.