Bastide
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Bastides are fortified new towns built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony, Aquitaine, England and Wales during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, although some authorities count Mont-de-Marsan and Montauban, which was founded in 1144, as the first bastides.
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- This heritage has been emphasized in the tourism in the southern regions.
- Ring of Iron, a system of fortified settlements implemented in thirteenth century Wales.
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