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Barbican
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BARBICAN. An ancient word to signify a watch-tower. Barbicanage was money given for the support of a barbican.



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Access has not altered since the fourteenth century, when the maritime republic, then known as Ragusa, completed its two land gates, with barbicans, and two sea gates feeding the harbour.
 
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