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True, but they did build fortresses in the Middle-Earth. Also, Othram (outermost wall of Minas Tirith) is outright stated by the narrator to have been build "before" the skill and knowledge of Numenor had faded in the Middle Earth.

It is nowhere close to 99%. And you were the one who claimed that it simply didn't happen. All I needed to show, technically, was one example to prove you wrong. Again, once you have a bridge across the river, it hardly matters how many more there are and whether there is a half of the city...

Yes, majority of cities did not straddle rivers, but you claimed that it never happened, and that is simply false. There were a few cities which did, and many more which had a small portion of the city across the river. And while it is indeed logical to use river as a defensive channel, and thus...

I'm not making bad faith argument, you are just lying. City was straddling the river, or rather, it was straddling one segment of the river which at that place had split into two channels. Fact that it may or may not have been the main channel is completely irrelevant - what you call "tributary"...

Page two is precisely where I have looked. And then at the rest of the document. And both of these are part of the main river itself. River splitting into parts is not exactly unusual. Moreover, Le Grands Boulevards is too far away from the city itself to be considered part of the city. Paris...

Your link actually quite clearly shows the Wall of Philip Augustus encompassing equal areas on both sides of the river. Also, look at Google Maps - Bd. Peripherique follows the line of the walls (though these are early modern walls), and clearly encompasses the river. Look also at the map of...

Actually, you are wrong here. There are multiple ancient and medieval cities which were on both shores of the river: Ancient Rome: Medieval Paris: Medieval Norwich: Ancient Mari: The only question is how wide the Anduin is at Osgilliath: the cities above had no riverside walls largely...

https://fantasycore.home.blog/2021/09/12/numenorean-defensive-works/ Numenorean architecture was massive. Tolkien states that in the fashion of Egyptians, Numenoreans built very large things. This is shown almost immediately upon the Fellowship arriving to old borders of Gondor: Argonath, two...