Famous walls & fences



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The Western Wall is an important Jewish religious site located in the Old City of Jerusalem which is also of significance to Islam. The wall dates from the end of the Second Temple period, being constructed around 19 BCE by Herod the Great.



The Peace Lines are a series of separation barriers ranging in length from a few hundred yards to over three miles separating Catholic and Protestant neighbourhoods in Belfast, Derry and elsewhere in Northern Ireland. The stated purpose of the barriers is to minimize intercommunal sectarian violence between Protestants and Catholics. The barriers themselves consist of iron, brick, and steel walls up to 25 feet high, topped with metal netting, or simply a white line painted on the ground similar to a road marking. Some have gates in them occasionally manned by police, which allow passage by day, and which are closed at night.



The Moroccan Wall was built by Morocco in the 1980s to curb attacks by the Western Sahara independent movement, Polisario, on territory it claims for itself. The series of walls some 1,700 miles long and 10 feet high made of earth, rock and sand, defended by thousands of Moroccan troops and fortified by bunkers and fences, barbed wire and an estimated million landmines.



Hadrian's Wall is a stone and turf fortification begun in AD 122 during the rule of emperor Hadrian across the width of what is now northern England to prevent military raids on Roman Britain by the Pictish tribes to the north, to improve economic stability and provide peaceful conditions in Britain, and to mark physically the frontier of the Roman Empire.




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