Pišút, P., 2006. Turks strength protection of the Bratislava bridgehead on historical maps 17th-19th century. Anti-Ottoman fortifications for protection of Bratislava's bridgehead on the 17th-19th century historical maps. In Feranec, J., Pravda, J. (Eds.) Activities in cartography, the 2006th Bratislava, Cartographic al. SR and Geography Institute, p. 166-179.
original line Petržalka earth mounds and fortifications dating to the r. 1663, plotted on the map of AE Frič r. 1751 (No map. 3 in Annex). 
slope earth pevnôstky - Reduta of r. 1809 north of Vienna roads, protecting access to Bratislava púredmostiu. 
detail floor plans of two forts on the cadastral map of Petržalka r. 1856 (No map. 10, Annex), indicated particular course of parcel boundaries. This paper examines almost unknown fortifications built to defend strategically important bridgehead in Bratislava's Petržalka. Interpretation of the 18th - 19th historical maps combined with literary data Allows to Recognise three stages in development of redoubts and earthen embankments, Which were most likely first Constructed in 1682-3. Remnants of eight originally modest-size redoubts, linked with 2 km long embankment, were during the Napoleonic war (1809) rebuilt by Austrian military into 6 larger, polygonal-shaped earthen outposts. Eventually, during the revolution in 1848 two of them near the Vienna highway were repeteadly strengthened by Hungarian Honvéd Army. Their remnants survived until today.
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