Hadrian Wall or Maginot Line...

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Russia created a great wall to protect its Southern border centuries back. It was called Great Zasechnaya cherta


Zasechnaya cherta (Russian: Большая засечная черта, loosely translated as Great Abatis Line or Great Abatis Border) was a chain of fortification lines, created by Grand Duchy of Moscow and later the Tsardom of Russia to protect it from the Crimean-Nogai Raids that ravaged the southern provinces of the country via the Muravsky Trail during the Russo-Crimean Wars.

There were a large number of fortification lines in Russian history and it is difficult to get good information on them. The lines naturally moved south as the Russian state expanded. The earliest reference to abatis fortifications appears to be in a Novgorod chronicle of 1137-1139. Abatis lines began appearing in southern Rus' in the 13th century. The 'Great Abatis Line' extended from Bryansk to Meschera and was nominally completed in 1566. It was guarded by a local militia of about 35,000 in the second half of the 16th century. Another source gives an annual callup of 65,000. Behind the line was a mobile army headquartered in Tula (6,279 men in 1616, 17,005 in 1636).

There are several notable lines. The oldest one (finished by 1563-1566) ran from Nizhniy Novgorod along the Oka River to Kozelsk,[4] and was built by Ivan the Terrible. The next one, built a while later, followed the line Alatyr - Orel - Novgorod Seversky - Putivl. Feodor I of Russia had built the abatis on the line Livny - Kursk - Voronezh - Belgorod. Simbirsk line[5] was constructed about 1640, and continued the Belgorod line from Tambov to Simbirsk on the Volga River.[6] In 1730-31 the Kama line separated Kazan from the Bashkirs. From about 1736 a Samara-Orenburg line closed in the Baskirs from the south.



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I found another modern-day wall in our world. It is the Moroccan Western Sahara Wall. It has a few names and it was built by the Moroccans to keep other people off the land. It is the longest minefield in the world, too.


This war-torn territory is divided by the Moroccan Wall, a 1,600-mile-long, 10-foot-tall fortified berm, or sand wall. At 16 times longer than the Berlin wall was, the Moroccan Wall, also known as “the Berm,” is one of the largest active military barriers. Landmines dot the length of the fortification, making it also the longest minefield in the world.

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The barrier minebelt that runs along the structure is thought to be the longest continuous minefield in the world. Military bases, artillery posts and airfields dot the Moroccan-controlled side of the wall at regular intervals, and radar masts and other electronic surveillance equipment scan the areas in front of it.

A map where it is located..
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It seems 4000 years ago the people living in northern Arabia built walls around oases and some of these walls stretched for 9 miles.


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The scientists also estimate that the rampart measured between around 5 and 8 feet in thickness and was approximately 16 feet in height. The vast fortification enclosed an area of nearly 1,100 hectares (2,718 acres).

The Khaybar site bears similarities to other walled oases dating back to the Bronze Age that have been documented in this region. Evidence suggests that the oases of the North Arabian Desert were inhabited by sedentary populations as far back as the fourth and third millennia B.C.
 

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China has another Great Wall called the Great Green Wall has been being built since 1978. It seems they want to keep back the Gobi dessert...

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The 'Great Green Wall' or, more formally, the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Programme has been one method the Chinese authorities have deployed to slow down desertification in this region. The 'wall' is actually strips and patches of trees planted in vast swathes across the north of China.


The Great Green Wall, officially known as the Three-North Shelter Forest Program (simplified Chinese: 三北防护林; traditional Chinese: 三北防護林; pinyin: Sānběi Fánghùlín), also known as the Three-North Shelterbelt Program, is a series of human-planted windbreaking forest strips (shelterbelts) in China, designed to hold back the expansion of the Gobi Desert,[1] and provide timber to the local population.[2] The program started in 1978, and is planned to be completed around 2050,[3] at which point it will be 4,500 kilometres (2,800 mi) long.

The project's name indicates that it is to be carried out in all three of the northern regions: the North, the Northeast and the Northwest.[4] This project has historical precedences dating back to before the Common Era. However, in premodern periods, government sponsored afforestation projects along the historical frontier regions were mostly for military fortification.
 

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Another wall found in Europe... in the deserts they are called kites...


A stone age wall discovered beneath the waves off Germany’s Baltic coast may be the oldest known megastructure built by humans in Europe, researchers say.

The wall, which stretches for nearly a kilometre along the seafloor in the Bay of Mecklenburg, was spotted by accident when scientists operated a multibeam sonar system from a research vessel on a student trip about 10km (six miles) offshore.


Closer inspection of the structure, named the Blinkerwall, revealed about 1,400 smaller stones that appear to have been positioned to connect nearly 300 larger boulders, many of which were too heavy for groups of humans to have moved.

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Carvings on these stones depict nearby desert kites, massive structures once used to capture animal herds, scientists report May 17 in PLOS ONE. Desert kites consist of stone walls up to five kilometers long that narrow into large enclosures surrounded by pits where hunters trapped animals, such as gazelles and deer (SN: 4/18/11). Kite depictions at the two sites closely resemble the shape, layout and proportions of desert kites found close by, archaeologist Rémy Crassard and colleagues say.
 

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Another wall found in Europe... in the deserts they are called kites...


A stone age wall discovered beneath the waves off Germany’s Baltic coast may be the oldest known megastructure built by humans in Europe, researchers say.

The wall, which stretches for nearly a kilometre along the seafloor in the Bay of Mecklenburg, was spotted by accident when scientists operated a multibeam sonar system from a research vessel on a student trip about 10km (six miles) offshore.


Closer inspection of the structure, named the Blinkerwall, revealed about 1,400 smaller stones that appear to have been positioned to connect nearly 300 larger boulders, many of which were too heavy for groups of humans to have moved.


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Carvings on these stones depict nearby desert kites, massive structures once used to capture animal herds, scientists report May 17 in PLOS ONE. Desert kites consist of stone walls up to five kilometers long that narrow into large enclosures surrounded by pits where hunters trapped animals, such as gazelles and deer (SN: 4/18/11). Kite depictions at the two sites closely resemble the shape, layout and proportions of desert kites found close by, archaeologist Rémy Crassard and colleagues say.
that wall seems to have not any defensive purpose
 

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that wall seems to have not any defensive purpose
That is the scientist's first guess of what the wall was used for it seems to be a short wall...

While the purpose of the wall is hard to prove, scientists suspect it served as a driving lane for hunters in pursuit of herds of reindeer.

“When you chase the animals, they follow these structures, they don’t attempt to jump over them,” said Jacob Geersen at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde, a German port town on the Baltic coast.
 

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I am going to put this long video about fences in Australia and their environmental impact the video has lots of info... To the animals, a fence is a wall and it is man trying to keep some of them out...

 

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Over all map of the Roman Limes in Central and Eastern Europe...

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I found these Famine Walls or Destitution Walls... Built-in Scotland and Ireland...


Scotland's hunger walls, the built walls in the middle of nowhere...

 

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Here is an Irish Hunger Walls...




But there were others who were more compassionate. They created work for tenant farmers (former landowners who, with a single pen stroke, lost everything). When the blight destroyed the potato crops, there was no food to sell to earn rent money. No potatoes meant no food for human or animal. One landlord devised a plan to provide income for his tenants. He put them to work building walls....walls that served no purpose except to provide a penny a day to those who worked. The walls are 8-10 feet high, 3 feet wide, and stretch for 300 yards. Along each wall there are periodic holes built into the structures. Records say that these holes were of ancient tradition and designed to hold one thing...fingers, the fingers of tribesmen, chieftains, families of the betrothed...fingers from both parties (both sides) would be slipped into the holes to touch those of the other. In this manner, pacts were made, agreements formed, and contracts made legal.

I slipped my fingers into one of the holes. It was hard to see beauty in work that must have been so back breaking and all for a few pennies a day. The energy surrounding the walls is palpable, humbling, almost sacred, as if those who built it are standing, watching like Errigal, reminders of the beauty of the indomitable human spirit.


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What are famine walls?
The Burren in County Clare is probably the best place to see these famine walls for yourself. Sadly during the period of the two great famines in the west of Ireland, the government put the downtrodden and often starving peasants to work in return for food or remuneration. Unfortunately like prisoners breaking rocks or painting stones white, the poor peasants were tasked with making mostly useless stone walls in the middle of nowhere. That’s why in the Burren in particular you’ll see long rows of stone walls up the sides of mountains seemingly dividing nothing from nothing, as they segregate pieces of land which aren’t even arable anyway.

One of the best ways to see these walls in person is to go for a hike in Ireland. Hillwalkers in Ireland will often spot such walls all along the west coast, especially in places like the Kerry Way and the Dingle Way, two of the country’s most scenic hiking spots.
 

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The English caused the famine in the way they managed the crisis and greed... Short videos...

Phytophthora infestans, the cause of potato late blight, is infamous for having triggered the Irish Great Famine in the 1840s.



 

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Another Iron Age wall or ditches in England.


Grim's Ditch, Grim's Dyke (also Grimsdyke or Grimes Dike in derivative names) or Grim's Bank is a name shared by a number of prehistoric bank and ditch linear earthworks across England. They are of different dates and may have had different functions.


The name ‘Grim’ is evidence in itself of ancient traditions concerning such structures, which appear to have been ascribed a supernatural origin. Coming from Old English grima, which can mean either ‘goblin, spectre’ or ‘mask’, it was perhaps used in England as a nickname for the god Woden, but in the Middle Ages was another name for the Devil. In some places, the name ‘Grim’ now alternates with that of the Devil in the names of ditches and dykes.

 

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Here is an update on this wall...


Wansdyke (from Woden's Dyke) is a series of early medieval defensive linear earthworks in the West Country of England, consisting of a ditch and a running embankment from the ditch spoil, with the ditching facing north.


Although there is a fair amount of discussion around this subject, it is thought that it was built by the native Britons as a defensive measure against the Anglo-Saxons who were expanding their territory from the east and the north.

 
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