It was probably the only fortified village in the entire country.

It began as a fortified village on the outer edge of the valley to become the main religious center for the area.

Until the second half of the 19th century, the island was the site of a fortified village.

This is because Marseillan was a fortified village until late in the 18th century.

The site had earlier been occupied by a fortified Muslim village.

The Irish took the well fortified village in an hour.

Within a few hundred years, they had built fortified villages.

He had new masters, white ones, who lived in a fortified village farther down the beach.

These people were followed by an agricultural society that built fortified villages on many of the same sites.

It means the town is a bastide, a new, fortified village.