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Preferred term

albarrani  

Type

  • owl:NamedIndividual

Definition

  • "Spanish term for a tower projecting from the walls of a castle or city fortifications and connected by means of a bridge. The earliest example in Spain is at Merida and is connected to the ninth-century fortress, but most other examples are later." [Petersen 1996] (en)

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Albarrana tower (en)

In other languages

  • German

  • al-barrānī
  • albarrana

    Spanish

  • torre albarrana

URI

https://hist-arch-vocab.org/bvha#c_547fcfae

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