White Tower

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The White Tower may refer to:

Contents 1 Geography and history 2 Commerce 3 Films 4 Literature

[edit] Geography and history

• The White Tower of Thessaloniki;
• The White Tower in the Tower of London;
• Sarkel (or Şarkil, literally White Tower or White Fortress), a town in the Khazar Khaganate later settled by Rus' under the name Belaya Vyezha.
• Weißer Turm, towers and U-bahn station in Germany

[edit] Commerce

• The White Tower Hamburgers restaurant chain;

[edit] Films

• White Tower, a 2004 Chinese film[1][2]
• Operation White Tower, a 1948 United States film[3]

[edit] Literature

• The headquarters of the fictional Aes Sedai in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series of fantasy novels;
• The Tower of Ecthelion in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth setting (also used metonymically for the city of Minas Tirith or the country of Gondor, where it is located);
• The White Tower (Dorothy Johnston), a 2003 novel by Dorothy Johnston.
• The White Tower, the English name of Shiroi Kyotō, a Japanese novel later adapted into a film and two TV mini-series.
• White Tower, a Korean TV drama based on the Japanese novel.
• The White Tower, a 1945 novel adapted into a 1950 film.