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    Posted: 20-Dec-2007 at 21:17
Yeah, but quite some private house!
 
Tower houses are probably found everywhere in the World, as long as conditions dictate it. In Medieval Iberian Peninsula it would be constant raids by enemy forces that would lead both nobles, richmen and the clergy to erect that sort of defences.
 
Unfortunately I don't have my pictures from Bulgaria with me, but in Koprivshtitza there are some fortified houses as well. They don't have towers though.
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Those are some really amazing pictures. Very interesting.

I think the Italians in the medieval era used to have something along these lines, too.

There are also a bunch of fortified houses on the Scottish borderlands, called bastle houses, which were farmhouses built for defense against the Border Rievers and Tories. Here is an example:



Plus there are fortified manor houses throughout the UK, for instance, Stokesay "Castle" ("Stoke" means "dairy farm"):




Some of the early settlements here in North America were also little more than fortified homes or a small group of fortified homes, for instance, Port Royal:




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Fortified homes in Samos/Greece (East Aegean). Of course these types exist all over the world in different versions, they're not Albanian, Greek, Ottoman or Scot alone....
 
(My pictures) ;-)
 
 
Umm, cannot post picture for somereason.... I'll post links instead:
 
 


Edited by Yiannis - 02-Nov-2008 at 22:30
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Fascinating and beautiful pictures everyone.  Are any of these late Byzantine fortified houses?  I know that the both the Byzantines and the Serbs built fortified houses and monasteries in the 14th and 15th centuries as the Ottoman advance increased.
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