Tower
A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting structures.
Photo: Benh, Public domain.- Type: Tower
- Description: structure with height greater than width
- Also known as: “Bokštas (statinys)”, “kulla”, “kulukulu kuduyuu (Tour)”, “ogayvatepo’i”, “qalança”, “Tinghøjtårnet”, “toardna”, “toer (bouwurk)”, “torony (építmény)”, “torre (construción)”, “torres”, “tour (savadur)”, “tower”, “towers”, “túr (foirgneamh)”, “wieżô”, “башта”, “бәәшң”, “каланча”, “мæсгуытæ”, “Աշտարակ (կառույց)”, “برج (تعمیرات)”, “برج (سازه)”, “برج (عمارة)”, “بورج (معمارلیق)”, “تاوەر”, “کەلوو”, “ܡܓܕܠܐ (ܒܢܝܢܐ)”, “মিনাৰ”, “ၶဵင်ႇလၢင်း”, “タワー”, and “臺”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights: Vebbestrup Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vebbestrup and Valsgård.
Tower
- Categories: type of structure, building, and built structure
- Location: Mariagerfjord Municipality, North Jutland, Jutland, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.70775° or 56° 42′ 28″ north
Longitude
9.87745° or 9° 52′ 39″ east
Established
1959
Height
148 metres (486 feet)
Open location code
9F8FPV5G+3X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
building=yes
OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=tower
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tower” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “toring”
- Afrikaans: “Toring”
- Albanian: “Kulla”
- Albanian: “kullë”
- Arabic: “برج”
- Aragonese: “Torre”
- Armenian: “աշտարակ”
- Armenian: “Աշտարակ”
- Assamese: “টাৱাৰ”
- Asturian: “torre”
- Asturian: “Torre”
- Azerbaijani: “qüllə”
- Azerbaijani: “Qüllə”
- Banjar: “Pagungan”
- Bashkir: “Башня”
- Basque: “dorre”
- Basque: “Dorre”
- Bavarian: “Tuam”
- Belarusian: “вежа”
- Belarusian: “Вежа”
- Bengali: “টাওয়ার”
- Bengali: “সুউচ্চ স্থাপনা”
- Bosnian: “toranj”
- Bosnian: “Toranj”
- Breton: “tour”
- Breton: “Tour”
- Bulgarian: “Кула”
- Burmese: “မျှော်စင်”
- Catalan: “torre”
- Catalan: “Torre”
- Central Kurdish: “بورج”
- Chechen: “БӀов”
- Cherokee: “ᎢᎾᎢᎦᏘ ᎠᏁᏍᎨᏓ”
- Chinese: “塔式建筑”
- Chinese: “塔式建築”
- Church Slavic: “трѣмъ”
- Cornish: “Tour”
- Crimean Tatar: “Qulle”
- Croatian: “toranj”
- Croatian: “Toranj”
- Czech: “věž”
- Czech: “Věž”
- Danish: “tårn”
- Danish: “Tårn”
- Dutch: “toren”
- Dutch: “Toren”
- Eastern Mari: “башне”
- Eastern Mari: “Башне”
- Egyptian Arabic: “برج”
- Erzya: “кевмар”
- Esperanto: “turo”
- Esperanto: “Turo”
- Estonian: “torn”
- Estonian: “Torn”
- Fiji Hindi: “Tower”
- Finnish: “torni”
- Finnish: “Torni”
- French: “tour”
- French: “Tour”
- Galician: “torre”
- Galician: “Torre”
- Georgian: “კოშკი”
- German: “Turm”
- Greek: “πύργος”
- Greek: “Πύργος”
- Guarani: “tórre”
- Guianese Creole French: “Tour (édifis)”
- Guianese Creole French: “Tour”
- Hausa: “bene”
- Hawaiian: “kowela”
- Hebrew: “מגדל”
- Hindi: “बुर्ज”
- Hungarian: “torony”
- Hungarian: “Torony”
- Iban: “Menara”
- Icelandic: “turn”
- Icelandic: “Turn”
- Ido: “Turmo”
- Iloko: “torre”
- Iloko: “Torre”
- Inari Sami: “tornâ”
- Indonesian: “menara”
- Indonesian: “Menara”
- Interlingua: “Turre”
- Irish: “túr”
- Irish: “Túr”
- Italian: “torre”
- Italian: “Torre”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Towa”
- Japanese: “塔”
- Javanese: “Menara”
- Jèrriais: “Tou”
- Kabiyè: “Kulukulu kuduyuu”
- Kabyle: “Berǧ (tasegda)”
- Kabyle: “Berǧ”
- Kalmyk: “цамхаг”
- Kalmyk: “Цамхаг”
- Kashubian: “torma”
- Kazakh: “Мұнара”
- Kikuyu: “Mũnaara”
- Kirghiz: “Мунара”
- Korean: “탑”
- Kurdish: “birc”
- Ladino: “Kula”
- Latin: “turris”
- Latin: “Turris”
- Latvian: “tornis”
- Latvian: “Tornis”
- Literary Chinese: “塔”
- Literary Chinese: “西洋塔”
- Lithuanian: “Bokštas”
- Livvi: “torni”
- Lombard: “Torr”
- Low German: “Toorn”
- Lule Sami: “toarnna”
- Luxembourgish: “Tuerm”
- Macedonian: “кула”
- Macedonian: “Кула”
- Malagasy: “Tilikambo”
- Malay: “menara”
- Malay: “Menara”
- Malayalam: “ഗോപുരം”
- Maltese: “torri”
- Maltese: “Torri”
- Marathi: “मनोरा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Thah”
- Minangkabau: “Minaro”
- Mongolian: “Цамхаг”
- Northern Sami: “doardna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “tårn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “tårn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tårn”
- Norwegian: “Tårn”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Torre”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܓܕܠܐ”
- Ossetian: “мæсыг”
- Ossetian: “Мæсыг”
- Panjabi: “ਟਾਵਰ”
- Persian: “برج”
- Piemontese: “Tor”
- Pite Sami: “tårdn”
- Polish: “wieża”
- Polish: “Wieża”
- Portuguese: “torre”
- Portuguese: “Torre”
- Quechua: “Turri”
- Romanian: “turn”
- Romanian: “Turn”
- Russia Buriat: “Самхаг”
- Russian: “башня”
- Russian: “Башня”
- Samogitian: “Buokšts”
- Serbian: “торањ”
- Serbian: “Торањ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “toranj”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Toranj”
- Shan: “လၢင်း”
- Sicilian: “turri”
- Sicilian: “Turri”
- Silesian: “wieża”
- Sindhi: “برج (عمارت)”
- Sindhi: “برج”
- Sinhala: “කුළුණු”
- Slovak: “veža”
- Slovak: “Veža”
- Slovenian: “stolp”
- Slovenian: “Stolp”
- South Azerbaijani: “بورج (تیکینتی)”
- South Azerbaijani: “بورج”
- Spanish: “torre”
- Spanish: “Torre”
- Swahili: “Mnara”
- Swedish: “torn”
- Swedish: “Torn”
- Swiss German: “Turm”
- Tagalog: “Tore”
- Tamil: “கோபுரம்”
- Tatar: “manara”
- Tatar: “манара”
- Thai: “หอคอย”
- Turkish: “kule”
- Turkish: “Kule”
- Udmurt: “кабаз”
- Uighur: “مۇنار”
- Ukrainian: “вежа”
- Ukrainian: “Вежа”
- Upper Sorbian: “wěža”
- Urdu: “برج”
- Uzbek: “Minora”
- Venetian: “tore”
- Veps: “Čuhunduz”
- Vietnamese: “tháp”
- Vietnamese: “Tháp”
- Vlaams: “Torre”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lantawan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tore”
- Welsh: “tŵr”
- Welsh: “Tŵr”
- Western Armenian: “Աշտարակներ”
- Western Frisian: “toer”
- Western Frisian: “Toer”
- Western Panjabi: “برج”
- Wu Chinese: “塔式建筑”
- Xhosa: “Inqaba”
- Yakut: “Тала”
- Yiddish: “טורעם”
- Yue Chinese: “西洋塔”
- “tomo sewi linja”
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