Энциклопедия посвящена городам, местечкам и замкам многонационального государства - Великого княжества Литовского, находящимся на территории Белоруссии, Литвы, Украины, Польши, России, Латвии. Материал энциклопедии охватывает период от XIII до конца XVIII века. В алфавитной части книги предпринята попытка описать все известные в указанный период относительно крупные населённые пункты - города, местечки, большие сёла, где находились замки, и сами замковые комплексы - как существующие или сохранившиеся в руинах, так и полностью утраченные и известные лишь по летописям и археологическим источникам.

Two thousand years ago, southern Scotland was part of a great empire, the Roman Empire. About AD 140, a Roman army marched north from Hadrian's Wall and built a new frontier across the Forth-Clyde isthmus, from modern Bo'ness to Old Kilpatrick. In this fascinating new book, David Breeze tells the story of the invasion, the building of the Antonine Wall, its occupation and abandonment. The material used to tell this story includes contemporary coins and literary sources together with the inscriptions and sculpture from the Antonine Wall, as well as the archaeological remains of the monument.The unique distance slabs not only record the process of building, but provide a series of snapshots depicting the preparations, invasion and victory achieved by the Roman army over 1800 years ago and stunning new photography by David Henrie of Historic Scotland illustrates all aspects of this most northerly Roman frontier. These photographs help us to appreciate the Antonine Wall in its landscape and understand the reasons for its construction. Both scholarly and beautifully illustrated, this new book underlines the reasons why the Antonine Wall has been proposed as a World Heritage Site.