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The Ibicencos fortified the bulwarks and built additional towers and fortresses throughout to help shield themselves against enemy incursions.
Its banks are lined by numerous beautiful walled towns and powerful fortresses.
The LAT writes that since the Beirut and Kuwait bombings, more than $1 billion has been spent to upgrade certain embassies to become "state-of-the-art anti-terrorist fortresses."
The Segura Valley was the last part of Spain to be inhabited by Muslims, who abandoned their fortresses there in 1505.
Franciscan friars, such as the 16th-century Bishop Diego de Landa, were dispatched from Europe to spread the Christian faith throughout the peninsula, though they were met with some resistance — any similarity between the early Yucatecan churches and military fortresses is not accidental.