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cyberwolf Member |
posted 01-19-2003 11:37 AM
  
please help....i need info on how they fatored in where and why they placed a castle in its specific location(any castle can serve as an example) thx |
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Erik Schmidt Senior Member |
posted 01-20-2003 05:17 AM
It was a combination of any of a geat variety of factors, each being given varying importance for different castles. Some of the main ones are; -Location of the land belonging to the castle builder. -Location of trade routes (eg. rivers, mountain passes etc.). -Location of important defensive area (eg. valley on a border). -Location of a specific geographical feature used to increase the castles defensive capacity (eg. swamp, hill, river etc.). -Nearby population to control. -Nearby industry or resource to control. The importance of the various factors would depend on what the owner wanted to achieve. I don't know of a specific example where the reasoning for it's location fully known, but many web-sites about individual castles will state the main purpose of it's construction. Erik |
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