The Chinese have always been a very militaristic people. In the days of the Tang (and later) they used to invade the Hindukush region, slaughter tons of people, force Rajas to pay tribute and destroy Tibetan garrisons.
The Tibetans were always favoured by my people, but the Chinese used to come and bully us...
"Who are the rulers of the lands beyond Guraiz and Burzil? The Darada Rajas."
The Rajatarangini
Although castles were oringally introduced into England by the Normans to oppress the English, over time we actually became quite good at building them especially in Wales.
No longer as impressive as it used to be. Its the personal property of His Highness the Mehtar.
He does not actually have any political power anymore, so he cant afford to preserve it, but God will protect His Highness, the fortress of Chitral and the beautiful land of Chitral.
"Who are the rulers of the lands beyond Guraiz and Burzil? The Darada Rajas."
The Rajatarangini
Quote:Those plane trees in and around the fort are the biggest I have ever seen anywhere in the world. Must be 60-70 feet high.
There are 300 foot Redwoods in California, they are the tallest and biggest trees in the world.
Sequoia
Statistics
Trees over 60 m (200 feet) are common, and many are over 90 m (300 feet).
The current tallest is the "Stratosphere Giant" in the Humboldt Redwoods State Park, at 112.83 metres, last measured in 2004 (was 112.34 m in Aug 2000 and 112.56 m in 2002).
The all-time tallest sequoia was the "Dyerville Giant", also in Humboldt State Park. It was 113.4 metres high when it fell in March 1991, and was estimated to be 1600 years old.
There are 15 known living trees more than 110 m (361 feet) tall.
There are 47 trees that are more than 105 m (344.5 feet) tall.
A tree claimed to be 115.8 m (380 feet) was cut down in 1912.
The tallest non-redwood tree is a 100.3 m (329 foot) tall Douglas-fir.
In 2004, an article in Nature reported that the theoretical maximum potential height of Coast Redwoods (or any other tree) is limited to between 122-130 m (400-425 feet), due to gravity and the friction between water and the vessels through which it flows.
The largest in volume is the "Del Norte Titan", with an estimated volume of 1044.7 m3; it is 93.57 m tall with a diameter of 7.22 m. Among current living trees only 15 Giant Sequoias are larger than this; these are shorter, but have thicker trunks, giving the largest Giant Sequoia a volume of 1,487 cubic metres (52,510 cubic feet). A redwood cut down in 1926 had a claimed volume of 1,794 cubic metres (63,350 cubic feet), but this is not verified.
One large and impressive medieval castle in southern France not far from where I live :
Carcassonne
(last photo is the castle inside the castle: 12th Century)
Like in the movies
It saw a lot of action:
- Gaul camp since 800 BC
- Roman colony 200 BC / 400 AD
- Wisigoths stronghold 420-507 AD
- felt under Cordoba emirat influence during arab conquest
- taken back by the Franks in 759 AD
- Saw the Crusade against Albigeois (Cathares) around 1200 AD and lot of wars after that.
- partly destroyed, rebuilt, improved.
- One of the most important fortress guarding the Spanish border untill the 17th century
- in 1803, Napoleon stops the military use of the fortress
Mr Darada_Raja,
As for you accusation "CHinese are always militaristic", then why ancient chinese bother to build the Great Wall. Obviously the wall is for the purpose of defense, not offense. Only when the wall can not stop the harassment from barbarians, then the empire will strike back. Isn't that a more plausible explanation?
There are so many castles in Japan. It is said there have been
over 25000 castles described in the record. One said there
were over 40000. Many of them were destroyed in Meiji Era when
Tokugawa Shogunate returned it's administrations to the Emperror
and also by the bombing of the WWII. Still many of them were rebuilt
for their homelands' pride. You can enjoy their beautiful shape when
you will travel around Japan.
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