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Geography and history

  • White Tower of Thessaloniki
    White Tower of Thessaloniki
    The White Tower of Thessaloniki , is a monument and museum on the waterfront of the city of Thessaloniki, capital of the region of Macedonia in northern Greece and a symbol of Greek sovereignty over Macedonia...

    , a monument and museum in Greece
  • White Tower of Tehran, Iran
    Iran
    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

  • White Tower of Tsarskoye Selo, landscape architecture element in Tsarskoye Selo
    Tsarskoye Selo
    Tsarskoye Selo is the town containing a former Russian residence of the imperial family and visiting nobility, located south from the center of St. Petersburg. It is now part of the town of Pushkin and of the World Heritage Site Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments.-History:In...

    , Russia
  • White Tower (Tower of London)
    White Tower (Tower of London)
    The White Tower is a central tower, the old keep, at the Tower of London.-History:The castle which later became known as the Tower of London was built by William the Conqueror in 1066. It began as a timber fortification enclosed by a palisade. In the next decade work began on the White Tower, the...

    , a central tower in the Tower of London, United Kingdom
  • Lotrščak Tower
    Lotrščak Tower
    The Lotrščak Tower is a fortified tower located in Zagreb, Croatia, in old part of town called Gradec or Gornji grad . The tower, which dates to the 13th century, was built to guard the southern gate of the Gradec town wall...

    , a 13th-century fortress in Zagreb, Croatia nicknamed "the White Tower"
  • Sarkel
    Sarkel
    Sarkel was a large limestone-and-brick fortress built by the Khazars with Byzantine assistance in the 830s. It was named white-house because of the white limestone bricks they have used to build Sarkel...

    , a fortress in Russia renamed in 965 A.D. to Belaya Vezha (White Tower)
  • Tower of Kamyanyets, often called Belaya Vezha (White Tower)

Literature

  • The White Tower
    The White Tower
    The White Tower is a 1945 novel by James Ramsey Ullman. It was the fourth best-selling novel in the US in 1945.It was filmed in 1950 under the direction of Ted Tetzlaff and starring Glenn Ford, Alida Valli, Claude Rains, Lloyd Bridges, Cedric Hardwicke, and Oskar Homolka.-See also:*List of...

    , a 1945 novel
  • Shiroi Kyotō (novel) (The White Tower), a novel by Toyoko Yamasaki
    Toyoko Yamasaki
    is a Japanese novelist.A native of Osaka, Yamasaki worked as a journalist for the Mainichi Shimbun from 1945 to 1959 after graduating from Kyoto Women's University in Japanese literature. She wrote her first story Noren in 1957. The following year, she won the Naoki Prize for her second novel Hana...

  • The White Tower (novel), a 2003 novel by Dorothy Johnston
    Dorothy Johnston
    Dorothy Johnston is an Australian novelist.Born in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, Johnston trained as a teacher at the University of Melbourne and later worked as a researcher in the education field...

  • Tower of Ecthelion, 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)
    The White Tower (film)
    The White Tower is a 1950 mountain film starring Alida Valli as a woman determined to conquer the mountain that killed her father, and Glenn Ford as the mountaineer who loves her...

    , a 1950 film based on the 1945 novel
  • Shiroi Kyotō
    Shiroi Kyoto
    Shiroi Kyotō is a a novel by Toyoko Yamasaki. It has been adapted into a movie in 1966 and then twice as a television mini-series in 1978 and 2003.-Summary:...

    (The White Tower), a 1966 Japanese film based on the novel of the same name
  • White Tower (film), a 2004 Chinese film
    Chinese films of the 2000s
    This is a list of films produced in mainland China ordered by year of release in the 2000s. For an alphabetical listing of Chinese films see :Category:Chinese films-2000:-2001:-2002:-2003:-2004:-2005:-2006:-2007:...

  • White Tower (TV series)
    White Tower (TV series)
    White Tower , aka Behind The White Tower, is a South Korean drama aired on MBC in 2007, based on the novel Shiroi Kyotō written by Toyoko Yamazaki, Japanese novelist.-Cast:*Kim Myung Min — Jang Joon Hyuk...

    , a 2007 Korean TV drama based on the Japanese novel
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