##  [Fortification](/index.php/fortification) 

  ##  [Fortification](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/fortification-0) 

  

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Definition

A constructed defensive system—comprising physical elements such as walls, ramparts, bastions, ditches, palisades, and associated obstacles—designed to protect a settlement, position, or installation by increasing the attacker’s cost, controlling approaches, denying observation or movement, and enabling a defended force to prolong resistance; considered as spatial, material, and organizational mea