Abstract

DEFENSIVE FORTIFICATIONS IN SOME OF THE EASTERN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES

Assistant Instructor Haider Ali Kathim Hussein, Asst. Prof. Yahya Mohammed Ali

Volume: 9 Issue: 1 2019

Abstract:

Eastern Islamic Countries had a great importance in various fields to the Islamic State in the Abbasid Era in general because they represented the eastern side for the Abbasid State which was five centuries and a half old. Those countries were represented by towns that contained fortresses and citadels that protected them from external dangers and attacks. For this reason those fortresses and citadels had been rehabilitated and developed from time to time. The fortresses that surrounded those cities differed from each other, from a town to another, in thickness, strange and nature of the building and this made them more important in a way or another.

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