White Tower may refer to:
Geography and history
* White Tower or Tower of the Forty Martyrs, Mamluk minaret of the
White Mosque, Ramla, Israel
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White Tower of Thessaloniki, a monument and museum in Greece
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White Tower of Tehran,
Iran
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White Tower of Tsarskoye Selo, landscape architecture element in
Tsarskoye Selo, Russia
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White Tower (Tower of London), a central tower in the Tower of London, United Kingdom
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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
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The White Tower (British Columbia), a Canadian Rockies mountain named after the tower in the Tower of London
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The White Tower (Czech Republic), a 16th-century tower in the city of Hradec Králové
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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"
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Sarkel, a fortress in Russia renamed in 965 A.D. to Belaya Vezha (''White Tower'')
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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'')
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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
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''The White Tower'' (Ullman novel), a 1945 novel by James Ramsey Ullman
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Shiroi Kyotō'' (''The White Tower''), a 1965 novel by Toyoko Yamasaki
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''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
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White Tower (''Wheel of Time''), the headquarters of the Aes Sedai in the ''Wheel of Time'' series
Film and television
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''The White Tower'' (film), a 1950 film based on the 1945 novel
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Shiroi Kyotō'' (''The White Tower''), a 1966 Japanese film based on the 1965 novel of the same name
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''White Tower'' (film), a
2004 Chinese film
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''White Tower'' (TV series), a 2007 South Korean TV drama based on the 1965 Japanese novel
Other uses
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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
See also
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White Minaret
The Umayyad Mosque ( ar, الجامع الأموي, al-Jāmiʿ al-Umawī), also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus ( ar, الجامع الدمشق, al-Jāmiʿ al-Damishq), located in the old city of Damascus, the capital of Syria, is one of the ...
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Weißer Turm (disambiguation)
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