However, the population moved to the nearby and much more defensible site of Entrevaux from the start of the 11th century.

Peralta selected a defensible site with ample available land and a good water supply for the town, which he called Santa Fe.

The second choice proved to be more popular as it became apparent that there was little point in trying to make the site genuinely defensible in the face of cannon.

As the hill is defined by steep slopes on three sides, it is a naturally protected or defensible site.

Let us go seek some more defensible site.

Simcoe established York, as Toronto was originally called, with its naturally enclosed harbour, as a defensible site for a new capital.

He had a good eye for a defensible site, had St Kentigern.

The antiquity of this naturally defensible site has been recognised since the 1930s.

It combines access to fertile arable land and water with an easily defensible site and a strategic location along several natural traffic routes.

More defensible sites on higher ground existed nearby, but this location was strategically well located close to the River, an important transport route.