History
After the first Tartar invasion from year 1241, the rock citadels construction has began, the defensive system of Barsa Land being completed also with the peasant fortress. Those citadels enclose a polygonal perimeter, being placed on the elevations with difficult access and being formed by rocked thick walls reinforced with towers and gates. The population from the neighboring villages had taken refuge between these walls, sometimes for long periods of time, going on with their existence also during hard times. From this series of fortresses, the biggest and the most complex fortress from the south and south-east Transylvania is the peasant Fortress of Rasnov...
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