swap_horiz Jaffna Fort Alternatives

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Galle Fort

The Galle Fort is a remarkably preserved coastal fortress located in Sri Lanka. Constructed by the Dutch East India Comp...

Coastal Dutch Colonial 17TH Century

8.8 Great

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Castillo de San Marcos

Castillo de San Marcos is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States, built by Spain in St. Augustine, Flo...

Spanish USA Florida Colonial

8.6 Great

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Castillo San Felipe

Spanish colonial fortress sharing a name with several Caribbean and South American strongholds, each built from the 16th...

Coastal Colonial Colombia 16TH Century

8.5 Great

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Cape Coast Castle

British-administered castle on the Ghanaian coast, rebuilt in the 17th century as one of West Africa's largest slave-hol...

Coastal Colonial 17TH Century Ghana

8.5 Great

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Gorée Island Fortress

Fortified island off Dakar, Senegal, occupied successively by Portuguese, Dutch, French, and British powers, now a UNESC...

Colonial Island 17TH Century Senegal

8.0 Great

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Real Felipe Fortress

Spanish colonial fortress in Callao, Peru, constructed in the 18th century as the primary maritime defense of Lima and o...

18TH Century Coastal Colonial Peru

7.5 Good

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James Fort

British fortification built in 1673 in Accra, Ghana, that functioned as a slave-trading post and was subsequently used a...

British Colonial Island 17TH Century

7.5 Good

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Fort St. George

First English fortress built in India, established in 1644 in Madras (Chennai), which became the nucleus around which th...

India British Colonial 17TH Century

7.2 Good

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Fort Rotterdam

Dutch colonial fort in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, originally a Gowa Kingdom fortification that was captured an...

Dutch Indonesia Colonial 17TH Century

7.2 Good

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Fort Charles

Historic British fort at Port Royal, Jamaica, built in the 17th century and one of the oldest surviving English colonial...

Coastal Colonial 17TH Century Jamaica

7.0 Good

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Fort Belgica

Dutch pentagonal fort built in 1611 on Banda Neira in the Banda Islands, Indonesia, constructed to enforce VOC control o...

Dutch Indonesia Colonial 17TH Century

7.0 Good

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Fort Fredrick

Portuguese-built fort at Trincomalee, Sri Lanka (c. 1624), later modified by the Dutch and British, situated on Swami Ro...

Coastal Colonial 17TH Century Sri Lanka

7.0 Good

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Sindhudurg Fort

Sea fort built by Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj between 1664 and 1667 off the coast of Malvan in Maharashtra,...

India Coastal Island 17TH Century

6.8 Fair

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Fort Dansborg

Danish fort built in 1620 at Tranquebar (Tharangambadi) on India's Coromandel Coast, serving as the administrative headq...

Danish India Coastal Colonial

6.8 Fair

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Fort Amsterdam

Dutch colonial fort built in 1635 on the island of Curaçao, which today houses the island territory's government offices...

Coastal Curacao Dutch Colonial

6.5 Fair

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Fort Amsterdam Suriname

Dutch fort constructed near Paramaribo in 1747, serving as the primary military fortification protecting the Dutch colon...

Coastal Dutch Colonial 17TH Century

6.5 Fair

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Fort Oranje

Dutch fort established around 1629 on Sint Eustatius in the Caribbean, one of the oldest continuously maintained Europea...

Coastal Dutch Colonial 17TH Century

6.5 Fair

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Fort Dauphin

French colonial fort established in 1643 in southern Madagascar, representing France's earliest settlement on the island...

French Coastal Colonial 17TH Century

6.5 Fair

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Fort Batavia

Dutch VOC fort established in 1619 at present-day Jakarta, Indonesia, which served as the headquarters of the Dutch East...

Dutch Indonesia Colonial 17TH Century

6.0 Fair

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Fort Bullen

British fort established in 1826 at the mouth of the Gambia River primarily to intercept slave traders, later serving as...

19TH Century Coastal British Colonial

6.0 Fair