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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. RESTORING RAGUSA by POWELL, MARK / The Architectural Review More results

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