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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

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Agra Fort

Agra Fort is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Agra, India, developed primarily by Mughal emperor Akbar from 1565 and late...

India Imperial 16TH Century Mughal

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Citadel of Corfu

A Venetian-built fortification on the eastern promontory of Corfu town, Greece, developed from the 15th century onward t...

Coastal Island Greece 16TH Century

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Klis Fortress

Medieval Croatian fortress near Split controlling a strategic Dinaric Alpine pass, seat of early Croatian kings before f...

Split Medieval Croatia 16TH Century

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Intramuros

Walled city in Manila, Philippines, founded by Spanish colonizers in 1571 as the administrative and ecclesiastical cente...

Spanish Colonial Philippines Walled City

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Bakhchisaray Palace Fortress

Palace complex in Bakhchisaray, Crimea, serving as the seat of the Crimean Khanate from the 16th century and the only su...

Palace Ukraine 16TH Century Crimea

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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

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Junagarh Fort

Fort in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India, built by Raja Rai Singh between 1588 and 1593, notable for having never been successf...

India 16TH Century Plains Rajasthan

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Fort Santiago

16th-century Spanish citadel within Intramuros, Manila, Philippines, built around 1571 and notable as the final prison o...

Spanish Colonial Philippines 16TH Century

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Vaxholm Fortress

A 16th-century Swedish island fortress guarding the sea approach to Stockholm, established on orders of King Gustav Vasa...

Sweden Coastal Island 16TH Century

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Forte di Belvedere

Star-shaped fort overlooking Florence, Italy, commissioned by Grand Duke Ferdinando I de' Medici and completed in 1595 t...

Italy Florence 16TH Century Hilltop

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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

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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

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Festung Rosenberg

Festung Rosenberg is a well-preserved medieval star fortress located in Kronach, Germany, initially constructed in 1249...

Germany 16TH Century Hilltop Star Fort

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A Famosa

Portuguese fortress built in Malacca, Malaysia, in 1511, one of the oldest surviving European structures in Southeast As...

Colonial Malaysia 16TH Century Portuguese

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Modlin Fortress

A large 19th-century polygonal fortress at the confluence of the Narew and Vistula rivers in Poland, begun by French eng...

Poland Confluence 19TH Century Napoleonic

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