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Baljenac island has an incredible 14 miles of stone walls on its 35 acres — it seems like the island is almost more wall than land. Why were so many walls built here? Were they all agricultural terraces/retaining walls? What was the island used for and why does it have such building density?.

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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