The Tanners' Tower ( ro, Turnul Tăbăcarilor, german: Gerberturm) in
Sighişoara, belonging to
Mureș County, Romania, was built around the
13th
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–
14th
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In relation to the word "four" (4), 14 is spelled "fourteen".
In mathematics
* 14 is a composite number.
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centuries in the southeastern part of the city. It has a square plan, with a small, sloping roof in a single direction. This
tower was supposed to guard and protect the courtyard of the Clock Tower.
Its shape and position retracted behind the wall recommend it as one of the old towers, perhaps even the first one of the city. This tower with archaic aspect was not affected in any way by the fire in 1676. To defend the tower, tanneries used to have: a double
arquebuse as well as a simple one, a
musket
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, three hundred pounds of
gunpowder and some cannonballs
References
Sighișoara
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