swap_horiz Modlin Fortress Alternatives

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Burg Hohenzollern

Burg Hohenzollern is a spectacular 19th-century hilltop castle in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, functioning as the ancestr...

Germany 19TH Century Hilltop Swabia

8.8 Great

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Fort Bourtange

Fort Bourtange is a star fort in Groningen, the Netherlands, built in 1593 on orders of William of Orange to control the...

Netherlands 16TH Century Groningen Star Fort

8.3 Great

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Belgrade Fortress

Belgrade Fortress is a complex of fortifications at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers in Serbia, with origins...

Serbia Confluence Medieval Multi Era

8.3 Great

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Fort McHenry

Fort McHenry is a star-shaped harbor defense fort in Baltimore, Maryland, whose successful resistance to a British naval...

USA Coastal Maryland Star Fort

8.2 Great

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Fort Jefferson

Massive unfinished US coastal fortification begun in 1847 on Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas, Florida, one of the largest...

USA 19TH Century Coastal Florida

8.2 Great

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Fortress of Elvas

The Fortress of Elvas is a heavily fortified 17th-century border town in Portugal, notable for possessing the largest bu...

Portugal 17TH Century Star Fort Vauban Style

8.2 Great

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Fort Sumter

Fort Sumter is a sea fort in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, where Confederate forces fired the opening shots of the...

USA 19TH Century Coastal South Carolina

8.0 Great

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Naarden Vesting

Naarden Vesting is a well-preserved 17th-century star-shaped fortified town in the Netherlands, considered one of the fi...

17TH Century Netherlands Vauban Star Fort

8.0 Great

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Zamość Fortifications

A Renaissance fortified town in eastern Poland, designed by Italian architect Bernardo Morando for chancellor Jan Zamoys...

Renaissance Poland 16TH Century Star Fort

8.0 Great

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Festung Ehrenbreitstein

Festung Ehrenbreitstein is a massive hilltop garrison fortress in Koblenz, Germany, rebuilt by the Prussian military bet...

Germany 19TH Century Hilltop Prussian

8.0 Great

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Fortezza di Bard

A 19th-century fortress in the Aosta Valley, Italy, rebuilt from 1830 after Napoleon ordered demolition of the original...

Austrian Italy 19TH Century Alpine

7.8 Good

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Castillo de Montjuïc

Castillo de Montjuïc is a large military fortress overlooking Barcelona, Spain, originally built in 1640 and later used...

Spain 17TH Century Barcelona Hilltop

7.8 Good

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Oscarsborg Fortress

A Norwegian island fortress in the Oslofjord, built in 1845, renowned for sinking the German heavy cruiser Blücher durin...

19TH Century Coastal Norway Island

7.5 Good

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Fagaras Fortress

Medieval fortress in Făgăraș, Romania, built in the 14th century and among the largest and best-preserved feudal strongh...

Romania 17TH Century Transylvania Moat

7.5 Good

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Niš Fortress

Ottoman fortress in Niš, Serbia, constructed 1719–1723 on earlier Roman and Byzantine remains, one of the most extensive...

Serbia 18TH Century Ottoman Multi Era

7.5 Good

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Fort Pulaski

Civil War-era fort on Cockspur Island, Georgia, where Union forces first used rifled artillery in 1862 to breach its mas...

USA 19TH Century Coastal Civil War

7.5 Good

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Fort Laramie

Originally a fur-trading post established in 1834 in present-day Wyoming, it became a key US Army garrison and treaty si...

USA 19TH Century Wyoming Frontier

7.5 Good

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Fortress Hohenschwangau

Fortress Hohenschwangau is a 19th-century neo-Gothic palace in Bavaria, Germany, constructed between 1832 and 1836 by Ki...

Germany 19TH Century Medieval Hilltop

7.5 Good

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Fort Snelling

First permanent US Army post in the upper Midwest, established in 1819 at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesot...

USA Confluence 19TH Century Frontier

7.0 Good

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Forte de Almeida

Forte de Almeida is a massive 17th-century star fort in Portugal, heavily fortified during the Portuguese Restoration Wa...

18TH Century Portugal Border Napoleonic

7.0 Good