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Town Walls

Cetatea Mediaș
Town Walls
Cetatea Mediaș
Medias Fortificatiile orasului (2)
Andrei kokelburg, CC BY-SA 3.0 RO, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
town fortification
Current function:
town fortification
Historical Hungarian county:
Nagy-Küküllő
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.1626665877, 24.3554862551
Google map:

History

The town wall, which is still 1485 metres long, has several towers, the most interesting being the Forkesch gate tower in the south and the Steingässer tower in the north.

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