White Tower may refer to:

Geography and history

* White Tower or Tower of the Forty Martyrs, Mamluk minaret of the

White Mosque, Ramla The White Mosque ( ar, المسجد الأبيض, al-Masjid al-Abyad; he, המסגד הלבן, HaMisgad HaLavan) was an Umayyad-era mosque located in Ramle, Israel. Only its minaret is still standing. According to local Islamic tradition, the ...

, Israel *

White Tower of Thessaloniki The White Tower of Thessaloniki ( el, Λευκός Πύργος ''Lefkós Pýrgos''; tr, Beyaz Kule; lad, Kuli Blanka) is a monument and museum on the waterfront of the city of Thessaloniki, capital of the region of Macedonia in northern Greece ...

, a monument and museum in Greece * White Tower of Tehran,

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

* White Tower of Tsarskoye Selo, landscape architecture element in Tsarskoye Selo, Russia * White Tower (Tower of London), a central tower in the Tower of London, United Kingdom *

White Tower (Brixen) The "White Tower" (in German ''Weißer Turm'' ) is located in Brixen (; it, Bressanone ; lld, Porsenù or ), a small town in South Tyrol, Italy. It dates back to the 15th century. The Gothic architecture tower stands 72m tall and the cathedral ...

, bell tower dated back to the 15th century, Brixen, Italy *

The White Tower (British Columbia) The White Tower is a peak in British Columbia, Canada. Its line parent is Fusilier Peak, away. It is part of the Tower of London Range of the Muskwa Ranges in the Canadian Rockies. The White Tower is named after the White Tower of the Tower o ...

, a Canadian Rockies mountain named after the tower in the Tower of London * The White Tower (Czech Republic), a 16th-century tower in the city of Hradec Králové *

Lotrščak Tower The Lotrščak Tower ( hr, Kula Lotrščak, ) is a fortified tower located in Zagreb, Croatia, in an old part of town called Gradec or Gornji grad (Upper Town). The tower, which dates to the 13th century, was built to guard the southern gate of th ...

, a 13th-century fortress in Zagreb, Croatia nicknamed "the White Tower" *

Sarkel Sarkel (or Šarkel, literally ''white house'' in the Khazar language was a large limestone-and-brick fortress in the present-day Rostov Oblast of Russia, on the left bank of the lower Don River. It was built by the Khazars with Byzantine assi ...

, a fortress in Russia renamed in 965 A.D. to Belaya Vezha (''White Tower'') *

Tower of Kamyanyets The Tower of Kamyenyets, often called by the misnomer the White Tower ( be, Белая вежа, transliteration: ''Bielaya Vieža'' or ''Belaya Vezha''), is the main landmark of the town of Kamyenyets in Belarus. The name ''Bielaja Vieža'' (alte ...

, often called Belaya Vezha (''White Tower'') *

Aħrax Tower Aħrax Tower ( mt, Torri tal-Aħrax), originally known as ''Torre di Lacras'', and also known as Armier Tower ( mt, Torri tal-Armier), Ta' Ħoslien Tower ( mt, Torri ta' Ħoslien) or the White Tower ( mt, Torri l-Abjad), is a small watchtower over ...

, a tower in Malta often called Torri l-Abjad (''White Tower'')

Literature

* ''The White Tower'' (Ullman novel), a 1945 novel by James Ramsey Ullman * ''

Shiroi Kyotō is a 1965 novel by Toyoko Yamasaki. It has been adapted into a film in 1966 and then five times as a television series in 1967, 1978, 1990, 2003, and 2019. The 1966 film was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a S ...

'' (''The White Tower''), a 1965 novel by Toyoko Yamasaki * ''The White Tower'' (Johnston novel), a 2003 novel by Dorothy Johnston * The White Tower of Minas Tirith in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth * White Tower (''Wheel of Time''), the headquarters of the Aes Sedai in the ''Wheel of Time'' series

Film and television

* ''The White Tower'' (film), a 1950 film based on the 1945 novel * ''

'' (''The White Tower''), a 1966 Japanese film based on the 1965 novel of the same name * ''White Tower'' (film), a 2004 Chinese film * ''White Tower'' (TV series), a 2007 South Korean TV drama based on the 1965 Japanese novel

Other uses

White Tower Hamburgers White Tower Hamburgers was a fast food restaurant chain that was founded in 1926 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With its similar white fortress-like buildings and menu it is considered to be an imitator of White Castle chain that was founded in 1921. ...

, a restaurant chain

Geography and history

Literature

Film and television

Other uses

See also