This is a list for articles on notable historic forts which may or may not be under
current active use by a military. There are also many towns named after a Fort, the largest being Fort Worth, Texas, United States.
Dashtadem Fortress
Dashtadem Fortress ( hy, Դաշտադեմի ամրոց) is a substantial fortress of the 10th to 19th centuries located at the southern outskirts of Dashtadem village in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. In a cemetery south of Dashtadem, lies ...
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Ertij Fort
Ertij is a fort built during the 13th century. It is situated upon a hill adjacent to the village of Arpi in the Vayots Dzor Province of Armenia. Nearby in the gorge carved by the Arpa River is the cave shrine
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Halidzor Fortress
The fortress of Halidzor ( hy, Հալիձորի բերդ) is along a hill overlooking the Voghji River to the north, near the village of Kapan, which is southwest in the Syunik Province of Armenia. Halidzor Fortress is above sea level.
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Kakavaberd
Kakavaberd or Kaqavaberd ( hy, Կաքավաբերդ, Eastern Armenian ''Kak’avaberd''; also known as Geghi Berd, Keghi Berd or Kegh ( hy, Գեղի բերդ ''Gełi Berd'') is a fortress on a ridge overlooking the Azat River gorge at Khosrov For ...
Lori Fortress
Lori Fortress ( hy, Լոռի բերդ) is an 11th-century Armenian fortress located near the Lori Berd village in Lori Province, Armenia. The fortress was built by David Anhoghin to become the capital of Kingdom of Tashir-Dzoraget in 1065.
The ...
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Meghri Fortress
Meghri Fortress ( hy, Մեղրու բերդ), is an 11th-century Armenian fortress located in the town of Meghri
Meghri ( hy, Մեղրի) is a town and the center of the urban community of Meghri, in Syunik Province in southern Armenia, near t ...
Proshaberd
Proshaberd ( hy, Պռոշաբերդ, also Boloraberd) is a fortress built in the 13th century by Prince Prosh Khaghbakian. It is about north of the town of Vernashen in the Vayots Dzor Province of Armenia. Almost one kilometer east is the 14th ...
Sev Berd
Sev Berd or Black Fortress ( hy, Սև բերդ; russian: Чёрная Кре́пость, ''Chornaya Krepost'') is an abandoned Russian imperial fortress in Gyumri, Shirak Province, Armenia. The fortress, which lies from the Turkish border, was b ...
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Vorotnaberd
Vorotnaberd ( hy, Որոտանաբերդ; also Davit Bek's Castle) is an important fortress along a ridge overlooking the Vorotan gorge, between the villages of Vaghatin and Vorotan in the Syunik Province of Armenia. Vorotnaberd is above se ...
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Beehive Casemate
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Beehive Casemate is a historical fortification located on the banks of Obelisk Bay, in Sydney Harbour, New Sou ...
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Bradleys Head Fortification Complex
The Bradleys Head Fortification Complex is a heritage-listed former mast and defensive battery and military fortification and now war memorial and recreational area located at Bradleys Head Road within the Sydney Harbour National Park in in the ...
Lower Georges Heights Commanding Position
The Lower Georges Heights Commanding Position is located in the urban locality of Georges Heights in the suburb of Mosman, on the shores of Port Jackson, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Lower Georges Heights Commanding Position was cons ...
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Middle Head Fortifications
The Middle Head Fortifications is a heritage-listed former defence establishment and military fortifications and now public space located at Middle Head Road, Middle Head, in the Mosman Council local government area of New South Wales, Austra ...
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Steel Point Battery
The Steele Point Battery is a small fort, on the shores of Sydney Harbour in the eastern Sydney suburb of Vaucluse, New South Wales, Australia.
History
Talk of the need for harbour defences was noted as far back as 1857, while referencing the ...
Ben Buckler Gun Battery
The Ben Buckler Gun Battery is a heritage-listed fortified former gun emplacement and military installation of the late-Victorian period and now public open space located in the locality of Ben Buckler, in the Waverley Municipality of Sydney ...
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Breakwater Battery
Breakwater ''Battery'', was a coastal defence battery at Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia during World War II.
Constructed in 1939 to provide protection for Port Kembla from enemy shipping and submarines. Two 6 inch Mk XI gun emplacement ...
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Drummond Battery
Drummond Battery, also known as Fort Drummond, is a heritage-listed former coastal artillery fortification and now television station and mushroom farm at 1 Television Avenue, Mt Drummond, Mount Saint Thomas, City of Wollongong, New South Wales, ...
Fort Glanville
Fort Glanville Conservation Park is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia located in Semaphore Park, a seaside suburb of Adelaide consisting of a functional 19th century fort listed on the South Australian Heritage ...
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Fort Lytton
Fort Lytton is a heritage-listed 19th century coastal fort in the suburb of Lytton in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The name “Fort Lytton” is also used to describe the military base that surrounded the fort. Fort Lytton was built in ...
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Fort Nepean
Fort Nepean is a former defensive facility occupying part of Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia. It was part of a network of fortifications, commanded from Fort Queenscliff, protecting the narrow entrance to Port Phillip. It is now part of Point ...
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Fort Pearce
Fort Pearce is a former defensive facility occupying part of Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia. It was part of a network of fortifications, commanded from Fort Queenscliff, protecting the narrow entrance to Port Phillip.
Fortifications
The forti ...
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Fort Philip
Fort Philip (also spelled Fort Phillips) was a fort built in 1776 during the American Revolutionary War and rebuilt in 1808, which also served in the War of 1812 to around 1815. It was in Newburyport, Massachusetts on the northern end of Plum Isl ...
Illowra Battery
Illowra Battery is a former Australian Army coastal-artillery artillery battery, battery located at Hill 60, Port Kembla, Hill 60, Port Kembla, New South Wales in Australia, built and in service during World War II. It was also otherwise known as ' ...
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Malabar Battery
Malabar Battery was a coastal defence battery built in 1943 during World War II at Malabar Headland in Sydney, Australia. The battery is also known as Boora Point Battery.
The battery was constructed to complement the existing coastal defence b ...
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Old Rainworth Fort
Old Rainworth Stone Store is a heritage-listed storehouse and now museum at Wealwandangie Road, Cairdbeign, south of the town of Springsure, Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1862 by George Goldring. It is also ...
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Signal Hill Battery
The Signal Hill Battery was constructed in 1892–3 at Watsons Bay and is adjacent to the Signal Hill Lighthouse on Old South Head Road.
History and description
The Battery was one of a set of three coastal defence fortifications in Sydne ...
South Channel Fort
South Channel Fort, also known as South Channel Island, is a 0.7 ha artificial island in southern Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia, 6 km north-east of the town of Sorrento. It was part of a network of fortifications protecting the narrow e ...
Wallace Battery
Wallace Battery was an artillery battery located on the northern side of the entrance to the Hunter River at Stockton, New South Wales, Australia. The battery was part of Fortress Newcastle. Two 6 inch Mk VII guns were installed at Fort Wallace in ...
Fort Fincastle Fort Fincastle may refer to:
* Fort Henry (West Virginia), formerly called Fort Fincastle
* Fort Fincastle (Bahamas)
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Old Fort of Nassau
The Old Fort of Nassau, also known as Fort Nassau, was a fort in Nassau, Bahamas, first built in 1697. The fort lasted for nearly two hundred years with a rich legacy of history until it was finally demolished in 1897.
It was located on the nor ...
Qalat Al Bahrain
The Qal'at al-Bahrain ( ar, قلعة البحرين; pt, Forte de Barém), also known as the Bahrain Fort or Portuguese Fort, is an archaeological site located in Bahrain. Archaeological excavations carried out since 1954 have unearthed antiqui ...
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Hajiganj Fort
Hajiganj Fort also known as Khizirpur fort, situated at Hajiganj locality of Narayanganj, Bangladesh, on the western bank of Shitalakshya.
History
The exact date of Hajiganj fort is uncertain but it may have been built soon after Subahdar Islam ...
Jangalbari Fort
Jangalbari Fort is a fort situated in Jangalbari village under Karimganj Upazila of Kishoreganj District.
History
After the battle of Egarasindhur, 16th century ruler Isa Khan took over the Janglabari Fort from Laksman Singh Hajra. After Musa ...
Babruysk fortress
The Babruysk Fortress ( be, Бабруйская крэпасць, russian: Бобруйская крепость) is a historic fortress in the city of Babruysk, Belarus that was built between 1810 and 1836. It is one of the best surviving exam ...
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Brest fortress
Brest Fortress ( be, Брэсцкая крэпасць, '; pl, Twierdza brzeska, russian: Брестская крепость), formerly known as Brest-Litoŭsk Fortress, is a 19th-century fortress in Brest, Belarus. In 1965, the title "H ...
Belgium
Province of Antwerp
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Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,
Fort de la Chartreuse
The Fort de la Chartreuse, which dominates the Amercœur neighborhood of Liège in Belgium, was built between 1817 and 1823 to defend the city.
History
The fort is built on a strategic height that dominates the valley of the Meuse, which had be ...
Fort de Fléron
The Fort de Fléron is one of twelve forts built around Liège, Belgium, in the late 19th century. The overall Fortified Position of Liège was a constituent part of the country's National Redoubt. Fort de Fléron was built between 1881 and 18 ...
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Fort de Chaudfontaine
The Fort de Chaudfontaine is one of twelve forts built around Liège, Belgium, in the late 19th century. The overall Fortified Position of Liège was a constituent part of the country's National Redoubt. Fort de Chaudfontaine was built between ...
Namur
Namur (; ; nl, Namen ; wa, Nameur) is a city and municipality in Wallonia, Belgium. It is both the capital of the province of Namur and of Wallonia, hosting the Parliament of Wallonia, the Government of Wallonia and its administration.
Namu ...
Fort de Dave
The Fort de Dave is one of nine forts built as part of the Fortifications of Namur in the late 19th century in Belgium. It was built between 1888 and 1892 according to the plans of General Henri Alexis Brialmont. Contrasting with the French fort ...
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Fort de Malonne
The Fort de Malonne is one of nine forts built as part of the Fortifications of Namur in the late 19th century in Belgium. It was built between 1888 and 1892 according to the plans of General Henri Alexis Brialmont. Contrasting with the French fo ...
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Fort de Suarlée
The Fort de Suarlée is one of nine forts built as part of the Fortifications of Namur in the late 19th century in Belgium. It was built between 1888 and 1892 according to the plans of General Henri Alexis Brialmont. Contrasting with the French f ...
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Fort de Cognelée
The Fort de Cognelée is one of nine forts built as part of the Fortifications of Namur in the late 19th century in Belgium. It was built between 1888 and 1892 according to the plans of General Henri Alexis Brialmont. Contrasting with the French f ...
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Fort de Marchovelette
The Fort de Marchovelette is one of nine forts built as part of the fortifications of Namur in the late 19th century in Belgium. It was built between 1888 and 1892 according to the plans of General Henri Alexis Brialmont. Contrasting with the Fren ...
Bermuda
Bermuda had around 90 coastal defense forts and batteries scattered all over the island chain. Early colonial defense works constructed before the 19th century were primarily small coastal batteries built of stone having anywhere from two to ten guns. Some of these early forts and batteries are the oldest standing masonry forts in the new world. Later forts constructed by the royal engineers were much larger and more complex.
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Fort St. Catherine
Fort St. Catherine, or ''Fort St. Catherine's'' (as it is usually referred to), is a coastal artillery fort at the North-East tip of St. George's Island, Bermuda, St. George's Island, in the Imperial fortress British Overseas Territory, colony of ...
Fort Victoria, Bermuda
Fort Victoria is a disused British Army fort, built to house coastal artillery atop Retreat Hill, within St. George's Garrison, at the North-East of St. George's Island, in the British colony of Bermuda.
The fort shares its hilltop location w ...
Forte de Santa Maria
Forte de Santa Maria ( pt, Fort of Saint Mary) is a fort located in Salvador, Bahia in Brazil. It is also known as the Fortim de Santa Maria ( pt, Small Fort of Saint Mary). It retains much of its original structure of the 17th century, including ...
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Forte de Santo Antônio da Barra
Forte de Santo Antônio da Barra is a fort located in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It was constructed to guard the entrance to the Bay of All Saints, during the time of the Portuguese Empire. The first Portuguese fortification erected in Bahia was ...
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Forte de Santo Antônio Além do Carmo
Forte de Santo Antônio Além do Carmo is a fort located in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It is variously known as the Forte da Capoeira, State Prison. The fort defended the northern limit of Salvador at its time of construction 17th century.
Early ...
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Forte de São Diogo
Forte de São Diogo is a fort located in Salvador, Bahia Brazil.
See also
*Military history of Brazil
The military history of Brazil comprises centuries of armed actions in the territory encompassing modern Brazil, and the role of the Brazilian ...
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Forte de São Lourenço
Forte de São Lourenço (English language: ''Fort of Saint Lawrence'') is a fort located in Itaparica, Bahia in Brazil. It sits on a strategic point at the north of Itaparica Island on a site used for whaling in the early 17th century. The Dutch c ...
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São Marcelo Fort
São Marcelo Fort ( pt, Forte São Marcelo), also known as ''Forte de Nossa Senhora do Pópulo e São Marcelo'' or ''Forte do Mar'', is located in Salvador, Bahia, Salvador in Bahia, Brazil. It is located in small bit of land off the coast in the ...
Forte do Castelo de Belém
Forte or Forté may refer to:
Music
*Forte (music), a musical dynamic meaning "loudly" or "strong"
* Forte number, an ordering given to every pitch class set
* Forte (notation program), a suite of musical score notation programs
* Forte (vocal ...
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Fortaleza de Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres
Fortaleza de Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres is a fort located in Paranaguá, Paraná in Brazil.
See also
* Military history of Brazil
References
External links
Nossa Senhora
Buildings and structures in Paraná (state)
Portuguese colonial ar ...
Forte de Santo Inácio de Tamandaré
Forte de Santo Inácio is a fort located in Tamandaré, Pernambuco in Brazil. The fort was restored in 2015.
See also
*History of Pernambuco
The history of Pernambuco can be roughly divided into two periods: first, when the region was a Port ...
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Forte de São João Batista do Brum
Forte de São João Batista do Brum (often simply Forte do Brum) is a fort located in Recife, Pernambuco in Brazil.
See also
*History of Pernambuco
The history of Pernambuco can be roughly divided into two periods: first, when the region was ...
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Forte de São Tiago das Cinco Pontas
Forte de São Tiago das Cinco Pontas is a fort located in Recife, Pernambuco in Brazil.
See also
* Military history of Brazil
References
External links
Sao Tiago
Buildings and structures in Recife
Portuguese colonial architecture in ...
Fortaleza de Nossa Senhora da Conceição
Fortaleza de Nossa Senhora da Conceição is a fort located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
See also
* History of Rio de Janeiro
References
External links
Nossa Senhora
Buildings and structures in Rio de Janeiro (city)
Portuguese colonial ar ...
Forte de São Domingos de Gragoatá
Forte de São Domingos de Gragoatá is a fort located in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and ...
Forte de São Mateus do Cabo Frio
Forte de São Mateus do Cabo Frio is a fort located Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
See also
* Military history of Brazil
References
External links
Sao Mateus
SAO or Sao may refer to:
Places
* Sao civilisation, in Middle Africa f ...
Forte de São João da Bertioga
Forte de São João da Bertioga is a fort located on municipality of Bertioga, São Paulo in Brazil.
See also
* Military history of Brazil
References
External links
Sao Joao
Buildings and structures in São Paulo (state)
Portuguese col ...
Sopot Municipality
Sopot ( sr-cyr, Сопот, ) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade. According to the 2011 census results, the town has a population of 4,548 inhabitants while the municipality has 20,367 inhabitants.
Location
Sopot is located on the slo ...
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Asen's Fortress
Asen's Fortress ( bg, Асенова крепост, ''Asenova krepost''), identified by some researchers as Petrich (Петрич), is a medieval fortress in the Bulgarian Rhodope Mountains, south of the town of Asenovgrad, on a high rocky ridge ...
Belogradchik fortress
The Belogradchik Fortress ( bg, Белоградчишка крепост, ''Belogradchishka krepost''), also known as Kaleto (Калето, "the fortress" from Turkish ''kale''), is an ancient fortress located on the north slopes of the Balkan M ...
Bozhenishki Urvich
Bozhenishki Urvich is a ruined fortress on the northern slopes of Lakavishki ridge in the western Balkan Mountains, 3 km south of village Bozhenitsa and 20 km from the town of Botevgrad, Bulgaria. It is situated at an elevation of 750 m.
An as ...
Kula, Bulgaria
Kula ( bg, Кула, , ) is a town in northwestern Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of Kula Municipality part of Vidin Province. Located just east of the Serbian-Bulgarian border, it is the third largest town in the province after Vidin ...
Cherven, Ruse Province
Cherven ( bg, Червен) is a village in northeastern Bulgaria in the Ruse Province. Cherven is situated in the municipality of Ivanovo. {{As of, 2011, the village had 239 inhabitants. The tributary of the river Rusenski Lom, Cherni Lom (meani ...
Plovdiv
Plovdiv ( bg, Пловдив, ), is the second-largest city in Bulgaria, standing on the banks of the Maritsa river in the historical region of Thrace. It has a population of 346,893 and 675,000 in the greater metropolitan area. Plovdiv is the c ...
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Eastern gate of Philippopolis
The Eastern gate of Philippopolis is one of the three entrances of the ancient city that have been discovered in Plovdiv. The gate was built on the main road to Byzantium and the Bosphorus. Initially constructed in the 2nd century AD during th ...
Nikyup
Nikyup is a village in Northern Bulgaria, in Veliko Tarnovo Province (Oblast Veliko Tarnovo), 194 km east of Sofia, Bulgaria's capital. The closest airport is in Gorna Oryahovitsa, 15 kilometers southeast.
Geography
Nikyup is situated on ...
Gotse Delchev, Blagoevgrad Province
Gotse Delchev ( bg, Гоце Делчев ), is a town in Gotse Delchev Municipality in Blagoevgrad Province of Bulgaria.
In 1951, the town was renamed after the Bulgarian revolutionary hero Gotse Delchev. It had hitherto been called Nevro ...
Svishtov
Svishtov ( bg, Свищов ) is a town in northern Bulgaria, located in Veliko Tarnovo Province on the right bank of the Danube river opposite the Romanian town of Zimnicea. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Svishtov Municipalit ...
Shumen fortress
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Shumen
Shumen ( bg, Шумен, also romanized as ''Shoumen'' or ''Šumen'', ) is the tenth largest city in Bulgaria and the administrative and economic capital of Shumen Province.
Etymology
The city was first mentioned as ''Šimeonis'' in 1153 by t ...
Storgosia
Storgosia was a Roman road station and later a fortress, located in the modern Kaylaka Park in the vicinity of modern Pleven (North-central Bulgaria).
It accommodated detachments of Legio I ''Italicas Novae (modern Svishtov) garrison. The s ...
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Pleven
Pleven ( bg, Плèвен ) is the seventh most populous city in Bulgaria. Located in the northern part of the country, it is the administrative centre of Pleven Province, as well as of the subordinate Pleven municipality. It is the biggest ...
Rhodope Mountains
The Rhodopes (; bg, Родопи, ; el, Ροδόπη, ''Rodopi''; tr, Rodoplar) are a mountain range in Southeastern Europe, and the largest by area in Bulgaria, with over 83% of its area in the southern part of the country and the remainder in ...
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Urvich
Urvich (also known as Kokalyane Urvich because nearest village - Kokalyane) is a medieval fortress in the territory of today's quarter Pancharevo, heir to the village of Glavishevo. It is located on the right riverside of Iskar River, in the hill ...
Ustra
Ustra ( bg, Устра) is a fortress in the eastern Rhodope Mountains in southern Bulgaria. Its ruins lie southwest of the village of Ustren situated on a hill at approximately above sea level.trading post that was established by a North American fur trading company. A number of "forts" in
northern
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* North, a point in direction
* Northern Europe, the northern part or region of Europe
* Northern Highland, a region of Wisconsin, United States
* Northern Province, Sri Lanka
* Northern Range, a ra ...
and western Canada were also established as exploratory, or policing outposts.
A number of municipalities in Canada include the term ''fort'' in their names. The municipalities that use the term ''fort'' in their name do so for historical reasons, with many of these communities resulting from the outgrowth of migrants that settled around the original fort. Many of these municipalities continue to bear use the term ''fort'' in their names, regardless of whether or not the original fortification and/or trading post still stands.
Military fortifications
The majority of military fortifications in Canada were built by the British, French, and Canadian armed forces. However, several military fortifications were erected by the Hudson's Bay Company, whose royal charter required them to fortify Rupert's Land. Other groups that erected military fortifications in Canada includes the First Nations, Spain, and the United States. Although military fortifications were built for strategic, and other military purposes, some military fortifications in Canada also housed trading posts, or was used by fur traders.
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Fort Rodd Hill
Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site is a 19th-century coastal artillery fort on the Colwood, British Columbia side of Esquimalt Harbour, ( Greater Victoria/ Victoria BC Metropolitan Area). The site is adjacent to Fisgard Lighthouse National Hi ...
Fort Boishebert
Fort Boishébert (originally known as Fort Nerepis) is a National Historic Site at Woodmans Point outside the Town of Grand Bay–Westfield, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada. Located at the confluence of the Saint John River and Nerepis riv ...
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Carleton Martello Tower
Carleton Martello Tower in Saint John, New Brunswick, is one of the nine surviving Martello Towers in Canada. The tower dates from the War of 1812 and played a significant role in conflicts until the Second World War. The site now features a resto ...
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Fort Frederick Fort Frederick may refer to:
Canada
*Fort Frederick (Newfoundland)
* Fort Frederick (Kingston, Ontario)
*Fort Frederick (Saint John, New Brunswick), built at the mouth of the St. John River in 1758 by the British during the St. John River Campai ...
Fort Howe
Fort Howe (1777 — present historic site) was a British fort built in Saint John, New Brunswick during the American Revolution. It was erected shortly after the American siege in 1777 to protect the city from further American raids. The 18th ...
Fort Frederick Fort Frederick may refer to:
Canada
*Fort Frederick (Newfoundland)
* Fort Frederick (Kingston, Ontario)
*Fort Frederick (Saint John, New Brunswick), built at the mouth of the St. John River in 1758 by the British during the St. John River Campai ...
Fort Townshend
A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is also used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from Latin ''fortis'' ("strong") and ''facere'' ...
Connaught Battery
Connaught Battery is a World War I era harbour defence battery located north of York Redoubt at Ferguson's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada. It took its name from the then Governor General of Canada, the Duke of Connaught, who was Queen Victoria's thir ...
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Cranberry Point Battery
Cranberry Point Battery was a First World War era coastal defence battery which defended the approaches to Sydney Harbour
Port Jackson, consisting of the waters of Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour, North Harbour and the Lane Cove and Parrama ...
Fort Lawrence
Fort Lawrence was a British fort built during Father Le Loutre's War and located on the Isthmus of Chignecto (in the modern-day community of Fort Lawrence).
Father Le Loutre's War
Despite the British Conquest of Acadia in 1710, Nova Scotia rema ...
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Fort Sackville
During the 18th and early 19th centuries, the French, British and U.S. forces built and occupied a number of forts at Vincennes, Indiana. These outposts commanded a strategic position on the Wabash River. The names of the installations were change ...
Fort William Augustus
Fort William Augustus (also known as Grassy Island Fort, Fort Phillips) was a British fort built on Grassy Island off of Canso, Nova Scotia during the lead up to Father Rale's War (1720). In the wake of The Squirrel Affair and the British attac ...
Georges Island
Georges Island, or George's Island, may refer to:
Geography
*Georges Island (Massachusetts), offshore from the city of Boston, Massachusetts
*Georges Island (Nova Scotia), offshore from the community of Halifax in the Halifax Regional Municipali ...
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Halifax Citadel
Citadel Hill is a hill that is a National Historic Site in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Four fortifications have been constructed on Citadel Hill since the city was founded by the English in 1749, and were referred to as Fort George—but only ...
York Redoubt
York Redoubt is a redoubt situated on a bluff overlooking the entrance to Halifax Harbour at Ferguson's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada, originally constructed in 1793. It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1962.
History
York Redoub ...
Fort Frederick Fort Frederick may refer to:
Canada
*Fort Frederick (Newfoundland)
* Fort Frederick (Kingston, Ontario)
*Fort Frederick (Saint John, New Brunswick), built at the mouth of the St. John River in 1758 by the British during the St. John River Campai ...
Fort Malden
Fort Malden, formally known as Fort Amherstburg, is a defence fortification located in Amherstburg, Ontario. It was built in 1795 by Great Britain in order to ensure the security of British North America against any potential threat of American i ...
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Fort Mississauga
Fort Mississauga National Historic Site is a fort on the shore of Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the Niagara River in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. The fort today consists of a box–shaped brick tower and historic star–shaped ear ...
Fort Wellington
Fort Wellington National Historic Site is a historic Fortification, military fortification located on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River, St. Lawrence River at Prescott, Ontario. The military fortification was used by the British Army, a ...
Gibraltar Point Blockhouse
The Gibraltar Point Blockhouse was a blockhouse that was originally built in 1794 and was located on Gibraltar Point at the western end of the Toronto Islands. The first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe, planned defences f ...
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New Fort York
New Fort York, later the Stanley Barracks, is a former British and Canadian military base in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the Lake Ontario shoreline. It was built in 1840–1841 to replace Toronto's original Fort York at the mouth of Ga ...
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Sherbourne Blockhouse
Following the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada Sir George Arthur directed the construction of a Sherbourne Blockhouse, and a ring of six other blockhouses -- to guard the approaches to Toronto in case there was ano ...
Fort Chambly
Fort Chambly is a historic fort in La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality, Quebec. It is designated as a National Historic Site of Canada. Fort Chambly was formerly known as Fort St. Louis. It was part of a series of five fortificat ...
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Fort de l'Île Sainte-Hélène
The Saint Helen Island Fort (french: Fort de l'Île Sainte-Hélène), a historic site on Saint Helen's Island in the city of Montreal, Quebec, was constructed in the early 1820s as an arsenal in the defensive chain of forts built to protect Canad ...
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Fort Ingall
Fort Ingall was originally a British fieldwork built in Cabano, Quebec, Canada in 1839 for the Aroostook War between Great Britain and the United States of America.
The site now features a reconstructed 19th-century fort museum containing exhibit ...
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Fort Laprairie
Fort Laprairie was constructed in 1687, and served as a military fort in New France until 1713. The fort was attacked by Major Peter Schuyler on August 11, 1691, but resisted to the invaders. The British and Dutch colonists were commanded by Ma ...
Fort Richelieu
Fort Richelieu is a historic fort in La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada. The fort is designated as a National Historic Site of Canada. Fort Richelieu was part of a series of five forts built along the Richelieu R ...
Fort Sainte Thérèse
Fort Sainte Thérèse is the name given to three different forts built successively on one site, among a series of fortifications constructed during the 17th century by France along the Richelieu River, in the province of Quebec, in Montérégie.
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Fort Senneville
Fort Senneville is one of the outlying forts of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, built by the Canadiens of New France near the Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue in 1671. The property was part of a fief ceded to Dugué de Boisbriant in 1672 by the Sulpicians. A l ...
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Fort Trois-Rivières
Fort Trois-Rivières (french: Fort des Trois-Rivières) was a 17th-century wooden fort in New France. It was built between 1634 and 1638 by the Sieur de Laviolette.
The construction of a wooden fort on this site marked the second permanent sett ...
Lévis Forts
The Lévis Forts were a series of three forts located on the South Shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Lévis, Quebec, Canada. They were at shooting distance of one another which allowed the defense of a wide area without the cost of a continuo ...
Exploratory forts
Several private entities, most notably the Hudson's Bay Company, established outposts or ''forts'', within
northern Canada
Northern Canada, colloquially the North or the Territories, is the vast northernmost region of Canada variously defined by geography and politics. Politically, the term refers to the three Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada#Territories, territor ...
for the purposes of housing exploratory expeditions to the Arctic. Forts that were built exclusively for the purposes of housing exploratory expeditions include:
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Fort Confidence
Fort Confidence, located at the mouth of the Dease River on the eastern tip of the Dease Arm of Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, was a Hudson's Bay Company establishment (not a trading post), built in 1837 by Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Si ...
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Fort Conger
Fort Conger is a former settlement, military fortification, and scientific research post in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It was established in 1881 as an Arctic exploration camp, notable as the site of the first major northern polar r ...
A number of trading posts operated by fur trading companies were also referred to as ''forts''. Fur trading companies that operated trading forts in Canada includes the Hudson's Bay Company, and the
North West Company
The North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's Bay Company in what is present-day Western Canada and Northwestern Ontario. With great weal ...
. Many of these were simply stockades, log enclosures for trading posts, although a few were former military installations which was later used by fur trading companies.
Fort Bourbon
Fort Bourbon was one of the forts built by La Vérendrye during his expansion of trade and exploration west from Lake Superior. Besides providing support for the important fur trade in what is now Manitoba, La Vérendrye wanted to conduct explora ...
Fort des Épinettes
Fort des Épinettes was a trading post or posts on the Assiniboine River from 1768 to 1811. It was also called Pine Fort and is not to be confused with Pine Island Fort. It was the first post on the Assiniboine and was closely associated with Bran ...
Lower Fort Garry
Lower Fort Garry was built in 1830 by the Hudson's Bay Company on the western bank of the Red River, north of the original Fort Garry (now in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada). Treaty 1 was signed there.
A devastating flood destroyed Fort Garry in ...
Fort Collinson
Fort Collinson was a trading post operated by the Hudson's Bay Company (Post Number B.405) located on Victoria Island in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is situated on the Prince Albert Peninsula on the north side of Walker Bay, just nort ...
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Old Fort Providence
Old Fort Providence, located near the mouth of Yellowknife Bay, Northwest Territories, Canada, was one of the first fur trading outposts on Great Slave Lake. Peter Pond of the North West Company first proposed trading with the Dene around Great Sla ...
Fort Douville
A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is also used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from Latin ''fortis'' ("strong") and ''facere'' ...
Fort Saint Jacques
Fort Saint Jacques, Fort Rupert, or Fort Charles was a fur trading post on James Bay at the mouth of the Rupert River. It was located in what is now Waskaganish, Nord-du-Québec region, Quebec, Canada.
Fort Charles was founded in 1668 in northern ...
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Fort Témiscamingue
Fort Témiscamingue was a trading post from the 17th century in Duhamel-Ouest, Quebec, near Ville-Marie, Canada, located on the fur trade route on the east shore of Lake Timiskaming. The fort is a National Historic Site, operated as part of ...
Fort de la Corne
Fort de la Corne was one of the two French forts established on the Saskatchewan River in the 20 years between the end of La Vérendrye's push west from Lake Superior in 1731–1743 and the fall of New France in 1763. (The other was Fort La Jo ...
Fort La Jonquière
Fort La Jonquière was a French fort built along the Saskatchewan River in the spring of 1751. It was purported to have been the furthest west outpost of New France. The fort was named after the Governor General of New France at the time, Jacque ...
Fort Sturgeon
Fort Sturgeon (1776–1780) was the first trading post on the North Saskatchewan River. It was located about 4 miles west of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. It and was also called Peter Pond Fort, Fort Pond, Fort la Prairie, Fort des Prairies, Lower S ...
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Pine Island Fort
Pine Island Fort and Manchester House were trading posts on Pine Island, a small narrow island on the North Saskatchewan River in Saskatchewan, Canada, from 1786 to 1793. Pine Island Fort was a post of the North West Company while Manchester Hou ...
North-West Mounted Police
The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) was a Canadian para-military police force, established in 1873, to maintain order in the new Canadian North-West Territories (NWT) following the 1870 transfer of Rupert’s Land and North-Western Territory ...
(later merged with the
Dominion Police
The Dominion Police Force was the federal police force of Canada between 1868 and 1920, and was one of the predecessors of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It was the first federal police force in Canada, formed the year following the Canadian ...
to form the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) established a number of policing outposts in western Canada during the mid to late 19th century, in an effort to provide law enforcement in the region. Forts established by the North-West Mounted Police includes:
* Fort Battleford, Saskatchewan
* Fort Calgary, Alberta
* Fort Livingstone, Saskatchewan
* Fort Walsh, Saskatchewan
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Fort Clonque
Fort Clonque is a 19th-century coastal fortress in Alderney, in the Bailiwick of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. It was constructed at a time when French naval power was becoming an increasing concern to the British. It is built on a rocky outc ...
Fort Hommet
Fort Hommet (or Fort Houmet) is a fortification on Vazon Bay headland (or '' houmet'' in Guernésiais) in Castel, Guernsey. It is built on the site of fortifications that date back to 1680, and consists of a Martello tower from 1804, later additio ...
Fort Grey
Fort Grey, colloquially known as the "cup and saucer", is a Martello tower located on a tidal rock in Rocquaine Bay in Saint Peter, Guernsey on the west coast of the island.
Château de Rocquaine
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Fort Saumarez
Fort Saumarez is a Martello tower in Saint Peter (Saint Pierre du Bois), Guernsey, on a headland that forms the northern tip of L'Erée and extends to the Lihou causeway.
Martello tower
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Fort Regent
Fort Regent is a 19th-century fortification and leisure centre on Mont de la Ville (Town Hill), in Saint Helier, Jersey, St. Helier, Jersey. The fort is in close proximity to the fortified South Hill Engineers Barracks at La Collette Power Statio ...
Fort Bulnes
Fuerte Bulnes is a Chilean fort located by the Strait of Magellan, 62 km south of Punta Arenas. It was founded in 1843 on a rocky hill at Punta Santa Ana, and named after President Manuel Bulnes Prieto.
The fort was built to further the ...
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Fort Chepe
Fort Chepe was a fort established in 1603 by Governor Alonso de Ribera on Cerro de Chepe (Chepe Hill) west of Concepcion, Chile on the north bank of the Bio Bio River. It was built for defense of the crossing of the Bio Bio River at this point ...
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Chivicura Chivicura was a fort erected in 1593 by the Royal Governor of Chile, Martín García Oñez de Loyola on the south bank of the Biobío River, to the west of the confluence of the Rele River with the Bio Bio, in what is now the commune of Santa Juana ...
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Fort Colcura
Fort Colcura was a small fort that was the first Spanish settlement that existed in the commune of Lota, Chile. It was on a small height on the edge of the Bay of Arauco, a little more than two kilometers to the southeast of the modern city of Lo ...
Fort de la Encarnación Fort de la Encarnación on the Repocura River was built in 1666 by a team overseen by Juan Ignacio de la Carrera and the orders of the Royal Governor of Chile Francisco de Meneses Brito. It was destroyed during a Mapuche rising in 1694 and rebuil ...
Jesus de Huenuraquí
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Fort Livén
Fort Livén was a fort with a small garrison built by Rodrigo de Quiroga in 1575, in the small valley of Livén, nearby the old city of Santa María Magdalena de Villa Rica. In 1585 it fell to the Mapuche cacique Putaén, who was later killed in ...
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Fort Lonquén
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Nuestra de Señora de Halle Nuestra Señora de Halle was a fort in the modern Bío Bío Region of Chile, established in 1603 by Governor Alonso de Ribera. It was situated on the south bank of the Bio Bio River in Catirai, along the upper part of its confluence with the Rele ...
Pukará de Quitor
Pukará de Quitor (also spelled Pucará de Quitor) (Quechua ''pukara'' fortress) is a pre-Columbian archaeological site in northern Chile. This stone fortress is located 3 km northwest of the town of San Pedro de Atacama
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San Cristóbal de La Paz San Cristóbal de La Paz was a fortress in Chile that was established in 1621 by Governor Cristóbal de la Cerda y Sotomayor. It was located five or six kilometers to the southwest of Yumbel on the west shore of the Claro River to the north of its ...
San Ignacio de la Redención San Ignacio de la Redención was a fort established in 1606 by Alonso García de Ramón, Royal Governor of Chile, in a plain, located in the region of Boroa on the north bank of the Cautín River. In forty days he constructed a large fort, surrounde ...
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San Jerónimo de Millapoa San Jerónimo de Millapoa was a fort founded by Alonso de Sotomayor in 1585. It dominated the small valleys of the eastern slopes of the Nahuelbuta Range of Catirai, in the upper part of the Culenco River, in the mountainous area 25 kilometers sou ...
Santa Cruz de Oñez
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Santísima Trinidad Santisima Trinidad (meaning ''Most Holy Trinity'' in Spanish) may refer to:
Places
* Santísima Trinidad (fort), a fortress that once existed on the Bio Bio River in Bio Bío province, Chile
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Santo Árbol de la Cruz Santo Arbol de la Cruz was a fort constructed in 1585 by the Royal Governor of Chile Alonso de Sotomayor. It was located north of the entrance of the Guaqui River into the Bio Bio River near the modern rail station and village of Duiquín.
Histo ...
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Fort Talcahuano
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Fort Tolpán Fort Tolpán was built in 1657, by order of governor Pedro Porter Casanate by captain Alonso de Cordova y Figueroa on the Tolpán or Trolpán River. The Tolpán River was the name at that time for what is now the lower part of the Renaico River and ...
Fort Virguenco
Fort Virhuenco was a Spanish fort located in what is now Araucanía Region of southern Chile. It was first established by Alonso de Ribera in 1613 as part of his system of frontier forts. It was located in the valley of Virhuén southeast of t ...
China
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Baimaguan Fort
Baimaguan Fort () is a fort in the village of Fanzipai (番字牌), north of Beijing and close to the Great Wall of China. It was built in the period of the Yongle emperor (1402-1424) of the Ming Dynasty.
The fort consisted of 500 guards and bea ...
Tung Chung Battery
Tung Chung Battery is a former artillery battery located on Lantau Island in Hong Kong. Named after the eponymous district it is situated in, it was built in 1817, twenty-four years before the British took possession of Hong Kong. It was re ...
Murray Battery
Murray Battery was an artillery battery located on Battery Path, beneath Government Hill in Central, Hong Kong. Named after Sir George Murray, it was built in 1841, shortly after the British took possession of Hong Kong, and served to protect ...
Fortaleza de Mong Há
Fortaleza (, locally , Portuguese for ''Fortress'') is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil. It belongs to the Metropolitan mesoregion of Fortaleza and microregion of Fortaleza. It is Brazil's 5th largest city and the t ...
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Fortaleza do Monte
The Fortaleza do Monte (Portuguese for ''Mount Fortress'', also ''Monte Forte''; officially ''Fortaleza de Nossa Senhora do Monte de São Paulo'', in en, Fortress of Our Lady of the Mount of St. Paul; ; Cantonese Yale: ''daaih paau yìh'') is a ...
Brod Fortress The Fortress of Brod is a fortress in Slavonski Brod, Croatia with significant cultural heritage. The fortress was constructed in the 18th century by the Archduchy of Austria to create a defense against the Ottoman Empire.
History
The city of Slav ...
Glavaš – Dinarić Fortress Glavaš (Serbian Cyrillic: Главаш) is a Serbian and Croatian family name.
People with the surname include:
* Luka Glavas (1985), Australian-born footballer
* Branimir Glavaš (1956), Croatian former major general and politician
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Knin Fortress
Knin Fortress ( hr, Kninska tvrđava) is located near the tallest mountain in Croatia, Dinara, and near the source of the river Krka (Croatia), Krka. It is the second largest fortress in Croatia and most significant defensive stronghold,Hrvatska ...
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Fort Lovrijenac
Fort Lovrijenac or St. Lawrence Fortress, often called "Dubrovnik's Gibraltar", is a fortress and theater outside the western wall of the city of Dubrovnik in Croatia, above sea level.Mirabella Fortress
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Monkodonja
Monkodonja/Moncodogno is a hill fort occupied about 1800–1200 BC during the Bronze Age, located near the city of Rovinj in the Croatia
, image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg
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Prozor Fortress
Prozor Fortress ( hr, Tvrđava Prozor or ) is a medieval fortress situated in the continental part of Split-Dalmatia County, in inland Dalmatia, just above the town of Vrlika in Croatia. From its origin as a small stronghold built by the ancient ...
Fort de Shinkakasa
The Fort de Shinkakasa, also called Fort Boma, was a fortification built in the Congo Free State to defend access to the Congo river in 1891. It is located about west of Boma which was the capital of the Free State and later the Belgian Congo f ...
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Buffavento
Buffavento Castle ( el, Kάστρο Βουφαβέντο, tr, Buffavento Kalesi) is a castle in Northern Cyprus. The exact date of its construction remains unknown, the most plausible theory being the Byzantine period. It combines Byzantine and F ...
Fortaleza San Felipe
The Fortaleza San Felipe is a historic Spanish fortress located in the north of Dominican Republic in the province of Puerto Plata. It is also known as ''El Morro'' de San Felipe and was used to protect the City of Puerto Plata from pirates an ...
Kakumäe
Kakumäe ( Estonian for ''"Owl Hill"'') is a subdistrict ( et, asum) in the district of Haabersti, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It is located at the top of the Kakumäe Peninsula, which is part of the Baltic Klint in the Tallinn Bay. Kakumä ...
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Naissaar
Naissaar ( sv, Nargö; german: Nargen) is an island in Estonia. It is situated in the Gulf of Finland, northwest of the capital city Tallinn, and is administratively part of the Viimsi Parish, Viimsi parish. The island covers an area of . It is ...
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Suurupi
Suurupi is a village in Harku Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finlan ...
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Viimsi
Viimsi (german: Wiems) is a small borough ( et, alevik) in Harju County, Estonia, about northeast of the centre of Tallinn, just north of Tallinn's subdistrict Merivälja. Viimsi is the administrative centre of Viimsi Parish. As of the 2011 ce ...
Suomenlinna
Suomenlinna (; until 1918 Viapori, ), or Sveaborg (), is an inhabited sea fortress the Suomenlinna district is on eight islands of which six have been fortified; it is about 4 km southeast of the city center of Helsinki, the capital of Finla ...
Hamina
Hamina (; sv, Fredrikshamn, , Sweden ) is a List of cities in Finland, town and a Municipalities of Finland, municipality of Finland. It is located approximately east of the country's capital Helsinki, in the Kymenlaakso Regions of Finland, reg ...
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Svartholm fortress
The Svartholm fortress ( fi, Svartholman merilinnoitus; sv, Svartholms fästning) was built between 1749 and 1764 outside Loviisa in Southern Finland by Augustin Ehrensvärd. The fortress, which lies at the mouth of the Bay of Loviisa, along wi ...
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Loviisa
Loviisa (; sv, Lovisa ; formerly Degerby) is a municipality and town of inhabitants () on the southern coast of Finland. It is located from Helsinki and from Porvoo. About 43 per cent of the population is Swedish-speaking.
The municipality co ...
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Ruotsinsalmi sea fortress
Ruotsinsalmi sea fortress ( fi, Ruotsinsalmen merilinnoitus, sv, Svensksund, russian: Морская крепость Руотсинсальми; both names meaning ''Swedish Strait'') is a fortification system in Kotka, Finland. It is part ...
Sund, Åland
Sund is a municipality of Åland. It is an autonomous territory of Finland which is very rich in history and culture, being one of the official 27 National landscapes of Finland.
The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of w ...
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Korela Fortress
Korela Fortress (Russian: Корела, Finnish: ''Käkisalmen linna'', Swedish: ''Kexholms slott''), at the town of Priozersk, Leningrad Oblast, Russia.
Origin
The original fortification was built by Karelians but the castle seen today is from ...
''(fi: Käkisalmi, sv: Kexholm)'',
Priozersk
Priozersk (russian: Приозе́рск; fi, Käkisalmi; sv, Kexholm) is a town and the administrative center of Priozersky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the northwestern shore of Lake Ladoga, at the estuary of the northern a ...
Fort de Bellegarde
The ''Fort de Bellegarde'' (''Fort'' or ''Castell de Bellaguarda / Bellaguàrdia'' in Catalan) is a 17th-century bastion fortification located above the town of ''Le Perthus'', in the Pyrénées-Orientales ''département'' of southern France.
H ...
Fort Bouillon
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Fort Louvois
Fort Louvois, which is known locally as Fort Chapus or Fort du Chapus, is a fortification built between 1691 and 1694, during the reign of Louis XIV, on the Chapus islet, and is about offshore in the town of Bourcefranc-le-Chapus in the departme ...
or Fort du Chapus
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Fort Douaumont
Fort Douaumont (french: Fort de Douaumont) was the largest and highest fort on the ring of 19 large defensive works which had protected the city of Verdun, France, since the 1890s. By 1915, the French General Staff had concluded that even the bes ...
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Fort-de-France
Fort-de-France (, , ; gcf, label=Martinican Creole, Fodfwans) is a Communes of France, commune and the capital city of Martinique, an overseas department and region of France located in the Caribbean. It is also one of the major cities in the ...
Fort Liberia
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Fort des Adelphes
The Fort des Adelphes, or Fort Richepance, is part of the fortifications of Épinal. It was built near the village of Deyvillers between 1883 and 1885, and was modernized beginning in 1907. It is an example of a Séré de Rivières system fortific ...
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Fort des Ayvelles
The Fort des Ayvelles, also known as the Fort Dubois-Crancé, is a fortification near the French communes of Villers-Semeuse and Les Ayvelles in the Ardennes, just to the south of Charleville-Mézières. As part of the Séré de Rivières system o ...
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Fort des Basses Perches
Fort des Basses Perches, also known as Fort Valmy, was built between 1874 and 1877 in Danjoutin and Belfort in northeastern France. It is part of the first ring of fortifications around the city of Belfort. The Forts des Perches were unique amon ...
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Fort de Bois-d'Arcy
The Fort de Bois-d'Arcy, also called the Batterie de Bois-d'Arcy, is one of the forts constructed at the end of the 19th century to defend Paris. It is located in the commune of Bois d'Arcy in the Yvelines département of France. The fort is loc ...
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Fort de Bois l'Abbé
The Fort de Bois l'Abbé, or Fort Poniatowski, is part of the fortifications of Épinal, France. It was built near the village of Uxegney between 1883 and 1885. It is an example of a Séré de Rivières system fortification. It escaped significant ...
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Fort du Bois d'Oye
Fort Bois d'Oye, also known as Fort Eblé, is located in the commune of Bermont. It was built between 1883 and 1886. It is part of the second ring of fortifications around the city of Belfort in northeastern France. This second ring of forts was ...
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Fort de Bourlémont
The Fort de Bourlémont, or Fort Choiseul, was built between 1878 and 1881. The fort was built as part of the Séré de Rivières system of fortifications, which were conceived in response to the increasing power and range of artillery. The Fort d ...
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Fort du Bruissin
The Fort du Bruissin is a fort in Francheville, France, near the city of Lyon. Built between 1878 and 1881, the fort is part of the Séré de Rivières system of fortifications built in the late 19th century. It has been rehabilitated as a contem ...
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Fort de Champigny
Fort de Champigny was built following the Franco-Prussian War to defend Paris. Located to the southeast of Paris in Chennevières-sur-Marne, the fort was part of an outer ring of fortifications built in response to improvements in the range and ...
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Fort de Châtillon (Paris)
The Fort de Châtillon was a fortification located about south of Paris in the communes of Châtillon-sous-Bagneux and Fontenay-aux-Roses. It was built in 1874 and was razed beginning in 1957, making way for expansion of the French nuclear resea ...
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Fort de Condé-sur-Aisne
The Fort de Condé, or Fort Pille, is a fortification of the Séré de Rivières system, built in France between 1877 and 1883 to defend the area between Soissons and Laon. It is located on the heights of the confluence of the Aisne and the Vesle ...
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Fort de Cormeilles-en-Parisis
The Fort de Cormeilles-en-Parisis was constructed between 1874 and 1877 as part of a new plan for the defense of Paris developed by General Raymond Adolphe Séré de Rivières, near the town of Cormeilles-en-Parisis. During the Franco-Prussian ...
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Fort de la Croix-de-Bretagne
The Fort de la Croix-de-Bretagne is a fortification in the vicinity of Briançon in the Dauphiné region of southeastern France. It was built as part of the Séré de Rivières system of fortifications in 1876–79 to defend France against inva ...
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Fort de Domont
The Fort de Domont was built following the Franco-Prussian War to defend Paris. Located to the north of Paris in Domont, the fort was part of an outer ring of fortifications built in response to improvements in the range and effectiveness of ar ...
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Fort Douaumont
Fort Douaumont (french: Fort de Douaumont) was the largest and highest fort on the ring of 19 large defensive works which had protected the city of Verdun, France, since the 1890s. By 1915, the French General Staff had concluded that even the bes ...
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Fort Dubois
Fort Dubois is a military construction from the 19th century,fort Dubois on http://www.fortiffsere.fr.
located in the town of Hirson in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France. This fort was built between 1877 and 1880. It is the work ...
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Fort de Giromagny
Fort de Giromagny, also known as Fort Dorsner, was built near Belfort in northeastern France between 1875 and 1879. The fort forms the southern end of the defensive curtain of the Haute Moselle Region, abutting the fortified region of Belfort, whi ...
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Fort des Hautes Perches
Fort des Hautes Perches was built between 1874 and 1877 in Danjoutin and Belfort in northeastern France. It is part of the first ring of fortifications around the city of Belfort. The Forts des Perches were unique among the first group in their r ...
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Fort de l'Infernet
The Fort de l'Infernet is a fortification complex near Briançon in the French Alps. It was built as part of the Séré de Rivières system of fortifications in 1876–78 to defend France against invasion from Italy. It specifically overlooks th ...
Fort de Liouville
The Fort de Liouville, also known as Fort Stengel, located between the communes of Saint-Agnant-sous-les-Côtes and Saint-Julien-sous-les-Côtes, near the town of Commercy in the Meuse departement of France, is one of the forts built at the end ...
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Fort de Maulde
The Fort de Maulde, also known as Fort de Beurnonville and the Ensemble de Maulde, is located to the south of Maulde, France. It is part of the Fortified Sector of the Escaut, an extension of the Maginot Line. The Séré de Rivières system fort ...
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Fort du Mont Bart
Fort du Mont Bart is located to the south of Montbéliard, France. It was built between November 1874 and July 1877 as part of the Séré de Rivières system of fortifications. The fort overlooks the valleys of the Doubs and the Allan at an elevat ...
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Fort de Montmorency
The Fort de Montmorency was built following the Franco-Prussian War to defend Paris. Located to the north of Paris in Montmorency, the fort was part of an outer ring of fortifications built in response to improvements in the range and effective ...
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Fort de l'Olive
The Fort de l'Olive is a fortification in the vicinity of Briançon in the Dauphiné region of southeastern France. Built in 1881 it was originally called the ''Ouvrage du Bois des Gasquets'', it was the third and final fort built near Briançon a ...
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Fort de Plappeville
The Fort de Plappeville, or Feste Alvensleben, is a military fortification located to the northwest of Metz in the commune of Plappeville. As part of the first ring of the fortifications of Metz, it is an early example of a Séré de Rivières ...
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Fort de la Pompelle
The Fort de la Pompelle, also known as Fort Herbillon, is one of a number of forts built around Reims after 1870 as part of a fortification belt in the Séré de Rivières system. The forts saw combat during the First World War in the defense of R ...
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Fort de Queuleu
The Fort de Queuleu is a fortification to the southeast of Metz, near Queuleu, France. Construction began while part of Lorraine was under French rule in 1868. After the interruption of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, the fort was improved b ...
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Fort du Replaton
The Fort du Replaton is a fortification of the Séré de Rivières system in Modane, France. The fort was built to provide artillery cover for the French end of the Fréjus Rail Tunnel away horizontally. It is connected to Modane by an aerial tra ...
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Fort de Roppe
Fort de Roppe, also known as Fort Ney, was built between 1875 and 1877. It is part of the second ring of fortifications around the city of Belfort in northeastern France. This set of forts was built as part of the Séré de Rivières system and i ...
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Fort du Salbert
Fort du Salbert, also known as Fort Lefebvre, was built between 1874 and 1877. It was named after General François Joseph Lefebvre. It forms part of the Séré de Rivières system fortifications in the fortified region of Belfort in northeastern ...
Fort de Sucy
Fort de Sucy was built following the Franco-Prussian War to defend Paris. Located to the southeast of Paris in Sucy-en-Brie, the fort was part of an outer ring of eighteen major fortifications built in response to improvements in the range and e ...
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Fort du Télégraphe
The Fort du Télégraphe, or Fort Berwick, is located in the Maurienne valley on the road to the Col du Galibier between Valloire and Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne, at the Col du Télégraphe, dominating the valley of the Arc. The location at an alti ...
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Fort de Tournoux
The Fort de Tournoux is a fortification complex in the Ubaye Valley in the French Alps. It was built between 1843 and the early 20th century to defend France against invasion from Italy and Savoy. It was described as the "Military Versailles of ...
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Fort du Trou-d'Enfer
The Fort du Trou-d'Enfer, also known as the Réduit du Trou-d'Enfer, is one of the fortifications of Paris, It is located in Marly-le-Roi, in the departement of Yvelines. The fort was built between 1878 and 1881 for a garrison of 800 men. It wa ...
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Fort d'Uxegney
The Fort d'Uxegney, or Fort Roussel, is part of the fortifications of Épinal. It was built near the village of Uxegney between 1882 and 1884, and was modernized in 1910. It is an example of a Séré de Rivières system fortification. It retains i ...
Fort de Vaujours
The Fort de Vaujours, located in the commune of Courtry, Seine-Saint-Denis, near the town of Vaujours, is one of the forts built at the end of the 19th century to defend Paris. It became a research center for the Commissariat à l'énergie atomiq ...
Fort de Villey-le-Sec
Fort de Villey-le-Sec, also known as Fort Trévise, is a fortification of the 19th century, built as part of the Séré de Rivières system of fortifications in Villey-le-Sec, France, one of the defenses of Toul. It is a unique example for its tim ...
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Fort de Villiers
Fort de Villers was built following the Franco-Prussian War to defend Paris. Located to the east of Paris in Villiers-sur-Marne, the fort was part of an outer ring of eighteen major fortifications built in response to improvements in the range ...
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Fort de Viraysse
The Fort de Viraysse is a fortification complex in the Cottian Alps overlooking the Ubaye Valley. It was built between 1885 and 1888 to defend France against invasion from Italy. The position was one of the highest military posts in France at , a ...
Ouvrage La Salmagne
Ouvrage La Salmagne is a ''petit ouvrage'' of the Maginot Line, built as part of the "New Fronts" program to address shortcomings in the Line's coverage of the border with Belgium. Like the other three ''ouvrages'' near Maubeuge, it is built on ...
Ouvrage La Ferté
Ouvrage La Ferté, also known as Ouvrage Villy-La Ferté, is a ''petit ouvrage'' of the Maginot Line, located in the Fortified Sector of Montmédy, facing Belgium. The ''ouvrage'' lies between the towns of Villy and La Ferté-sur-Chiers. I ...
Ouvrage Vélosnes
Ouvrage Vélosnes is a ''gros ouvrage'' (large work) of the Maginot Line, located in the Fortified Sector of Montmédy between the towns of Othe and Vélosnes, facing Belgium. It possesses four combat blocks and one entrance block. It is locat ...
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Ouvrage Ferme Chappy
Ouvrage Ferme Chappy is a ''petit ouvrage'' of the Maginot Line in northeastern France. It is located at the western end of the Fortified Sector of the Crusnes near Longuyon in the Meurthe-et-Moselle ''département'', facing Belgium. The ''gro ...
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Ouvrage Fermont
Ouvrage Fermont is a ''gros ouvrage'' of the Maginot Line, part of the Fortified Sector of the Crusnes in northeastern France, near the community of Montigny-sur-Chiers. It is located near the commune of Montigny-sur-Chiers, between the ''pe ...
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Ouvrage Latiremont
Ouvrage Latiremont is a ''gros ouvrage'' of the Maginot Line, located in the Fortified Sector of the Crusnes, sub-sector of Arrancy. It lies between the ''gros ouvrage'' Fermont and the ''petit ouvrage'' Mauvais Bois, facing Belgium. The village ...
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Ouvrage Mauvais-Bois
Ouvrage Mauvais-Bois is a ''petit ouvrage'' of the Fortified Sector of the Crusnes on the Maginot Line. It is located between the ''gros ouvrage'' Latiremont and the ''petit ouvrage'' Bois-du-Four, facing the Belgium/Luxembourg border. The ...
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Ouvrage Bois-du-Four
Ouvrage Bois-du-Four is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') in the Fortified Sector of the Crusnes of the Maginot Line. The ouvrage consists of a single large combat block without an underground gallery system, and is located between ''petit ouvr ...
Ouvrage Aumetz
Ouvrage Aumetz is a small work, or ''petit ouvrage'' of the Maginot Line. It is part of the Fortified Sector of the Crusnes and is located near the community of Aumetz in the Moselle ''département'' of France. The ''petit ouvrage'' flanked ...
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Ouvrage Rochonvillers
Ouvrage Rochonvillers is one of the largest of the Maginot Line fortifications. Located above the town of Rochonvillers in the French region of Lorraine, the ''gros ouvrage'' or large work was fully equipped and occupied in 1935 as part of the ...
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Ouvrage Molvange
Ouvrage Molvange is a large work, or ''gros ouvrage'' of the Maginot Line. The fortification complex faces the France-Luxembourg border from a height near Entrange in the Moselle department. The complex, armed and occupied in 1935, is located o ...
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Ouvrage Soetrich
Ouvrage Soetrich is a ''gros ouvrage'' of the Maginot Line in north-eastern France. Soetrich is located between ''petits ouvrages'' Ouvrage Immerhof, Immerhof and Ouvrage Bois Karre, Bois Karre, facing the France-Luxembourg border near the town ...
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Ouvrage Kobenbusch
Ouvrage du Kobenbusch is a ''gros ouvrage'' of the Maginot Line, located in the Fortified Sector of Thionville in the Cattenom Forest. It possesses seven combat blocks and two entrance blocks, one for ammunition and the other for men. It is loca ...
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Ouvrage Galgenberg
Ouvrage Galgenberg forms a portion of the Fortified Sector of Thionville of the Maginot Line. It is situated in the Cattenom Forest, near the ''gros ouvrage'' Kobenbusch and ''petit ouvrage'' Oberheid. The ''ouvrage'' was tasked with control ...
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Ouvrage Métrich
Ouvrage Métrich located in the village of Kœnigsmacker in Moselle, comprises part of the Elzange portion of the Fortified Sector of Thionville of the Maginot Line. A ''gros ouvrage'', it is the third largest of the Line, after Hackenberg ...
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Ouvrage Billig
Ouvrage Billig, a ''gros ouvrage'' or large fortification of the Maginot Line, was located in the Fortified Sector of Thionville, Moselle in northern France. It is located between the ''gros ouvrages'' Metrich and Hackenberg, facing Germany. ...
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Ouvrage Immerhof
Ouvrage Immerhof, also known as Ouvrage Ferme-Immerhof, is one of the largest ''petit ouvrages'' of the Maginot Line of north-east, France. Located near the community of Hettange-Grande, it is 7 km north of Thionville between the ''gros ouvr ...
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Ouvrage Bois-Karre
Ouvrage Bois- Karre is located in the Fortified Sector of Thionville of the Maginot Line, facing the France - Luxembourg border. The ''petit ouvrage'' is situated in the Cattenom Forest between the ''gros ouvrages'' Soetrich and Kobenbusch, ju ...
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Ouvrage Oberheid
Ouvrage Oberheid, also called Ouvrage Oberheide, forms a portion of the Fortified Sector of Thionville of the Maginot Line in northeast France. The ''petit ouvrage d'infanterie'' is located on a salient point of the Cattenom Forest between the ' ...
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Ouvrage Sentzich
Ouvrage Sentzich is part of the Fortified Sector of Thionville of the Maginot Line.
The ''petit ouvrage'' for infantry is located to the south of ''gros ouvrage'' Galgenberg, on the edge of the main road to Luxembourg near the village of Sentzi ...
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Ouvrage Hackenberg
Ouvrage Hackenberg, one of the largest (a ''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line fortifications, is part of the Fortified Sector of Boulay. It is situated twenty kilometres east of Thionville, in the Moselle ''département'', near the village ...
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Ouvrage Mont des Welches
Ouvrage Mont des Welches, a ''gros ouvrage'' of the Maginot Line fortifications, is part of the Fortified Sector of Boulay. It comprises two entrance blocks, one infantry block, one artillery block, one observation block and two combination bloc ...
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Ouvrage Michelsberg
Ouvrage Michelsberg, one of the Maginot Line fortifications, formed part of the Fortified Sector of Boulay as well as the fortified region of Metz. The ''ouvrage'' is located in Moselle (''département'') between the towns of Dalstein and d'E ...
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Ouvrage Anzeling
Ouvrage Anzeling is a ''gros ouvrage'' of the Maginot Line, part of the Fortified Sector of Boulay. It is located between ''petit ouvrage'' Bousse and ''petit ouvrage'' Berenbach, facing Germany just to the east of Bockange. With one of ...
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Ouvrage Coucou
Ouvrage Coucou is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line, located in the Fortified Sector of Boulay. The ouvrage consists of two infantry blocks, and is located between the ''gros ouvrages'' of Hackenberg and Mont des Welches, ...
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Ouvrage Hobling
Ouvrage Hobling is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line. Located in the Fortified Sector of Boulay, the ouvrage consists of two infantry blocks and two observation blocks, and is located between ''gros ouvrage'' Michelsberg ...
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Ouvrage Bousse
Ouvrage Bousse, also known as Ouvrage Bois de Bousse, is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line in the Fortified Sector of Boulay. The ''ouvrage'' is located between ''petit ouvrage'' Ouvrage Hobling, Hobling and ''gros ouvrage'' ...
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Ouvrage Berenbach
Ouvrage Berenbach, also known as Ouvrage Behrenbach, is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line. Located in the Fortified Sector of Boulay, the ''ouvrage'' is located between ''gros ouvrage'' Anzeling and ''petit ouvrage'' Bove ...
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Ouvrage Bovenberg
Ouvrage Bovenberg is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line. Located in the Fortified Sector of Boulay, the ''ouvrage'' is located between ''petits ouvrages'' Berenbach and Denting, facing Germany. It consists of two infant ...
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Ouvrage Denting
Ouvrage Denting is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line. Part of the Fortified Sector of Boulay, the ouvrage consists of three infantry blocks, and is located between ''petits ouvrages'' Bovenberg and Village Coume, near the ...
Ouvrage Coume
Ouvrage Coume is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line. Located in the Fortified Sector of Boulay, the ''ouvrage'' consists of two infantry blocks, and was located between ''petits ouvrages'' Coume Annexe Nord and Coume Ann ...
Ouvrage Mottenberg
Ouvrage Mottenberg is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line. Part of the Fortified Sector of Boulay, the ouvrage consists of one entrance block and two infantry blocks, and is located between ''petits ouvrages'' Coume Annexe Sud ...
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Ouvrage Kerfent
Ouvrage Kerfent is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line. Located in the Fortified Sector of Faulquemont, the ouvrage consists of three infantry blocks and an observation block, and is located between ''petits ouvrages'' Motte ...
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Ouvrage Bambesch
Ouvrage Bambesch is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line. Located in the Fortified Sector of Faulquemont, the ouvrage consists of three infantry blocks, and is located between ''petits ouvrages'' Kerfent and Einseling, facin ...
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Ouvrage Einseling
Ouvrage Einseling is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line. Located in the Fortified Sector of Faulquemont, the ouvrage consists of one infantry block (''béton armé''), and is located between ''petits ouvrages'' Bambesch and ...
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Ouvrage Laudrefang
Ouvrage Laudrefang is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line. Located in the Fortified Sector of Faulquemont, the ouvrage consists of one infantry block, and is located between ''petits ouvrages'' Einseling and Teting, facing ...
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Ouvrage Téting
Ouvrage Téting is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line. Located in the Fortified Sector of Faulquemont, the ouvrage consists of one infantry block and two observation blocks, and is located facing Germany between ''petits ouvr ...
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Ouvrage Haut-Poirier
Ouvrage Haut-Poirier is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry and three infantry blocks, and is located between the Saare valley and ''petit ouvrage'' Welschhof, facing Germany. It is the only ...
Ouvrage Schiesseck
Ouvrage Schiesseck is a ''gros ouvrage'' of the Maginot Line, located near Bitche in the French ''département'' of Moselle. Schiesseck is adjoined by ''gros ouvrage'' Simserhof and ''petit ouvrage'' Otterbiel, all part of the Fortified Sector ...
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Ouvrage Welschhof
Ouvrage Welschhof is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line, located near Rohrbach-lès-Bitche in the Moselle department of northeastern France. Located in the Fortified Sector of Rohrbach, the ouvrage consists of three infantry bl ...
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Ouvrage Rohrbach
Ouvrage Rohrbach (or Fort Casso) is a ''petit ouvrage'' of the Maginot Line located in the community of Bettvillier, near Rohrbach-lès-Bitche in the Moselle ''département'', facing Germany. The Fortified Sector of Rohrbach was built somewhat ...
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Ouvrage Otterbiel
Ouvrage Otterbiel forms part of the Maginot Line in the Fortified Sector of Rohrbach, Sub-sector of Bitche, and is located on the ''Camp de Bitche'' of the French Army. It is located between ''gros ouvrage'' Schiesseck and ''petit ouvrage'' G ...
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Ouvrage Grand-Hohékirkel
Ouvrage Grand-Hohékirkel is a ''petit ouvrage'' of the Maginot Line, located near Bitche in the French ''département'' of Moselle. Grand-Hohékirkel is adjoined by ''gros ouvrage'' Otterbiel to the west and ''petit ouvrage'' Lembach at some d ...
Ouvrage Lembach
Ouvrage Lembach is a ''petit ouvrage'' of the Maginot Line. Lembach is adjoined by ''petit ouvrage'' Grand Hohekirkel at some distance to its west and ''gros ouvrage'' Four-à-Chaux immediately to its east. It faces the German frontier, and w ...
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Ouvrage Hochwald
Ouvrage Hochwald is a ''gros ouvrage'' of the Maginot Line, one of the largest fortifications in the Line. Located on the Hochwald ridge in the Fortified Sector of Haguenau in the community of Drachenbronn-Birlenbach in the Bas-Rhin department ...
Ouvrage Chatelard
Ouvrage Chatelard is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also known as the Little Maginot Line. Begun in 1938, the ouvrage consists of one infantry block about one kilometer northeast of Bou ...
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Ouvrage Cave-à-Canon
Ouvrage Cave-à-Canon is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. Started in 1937, the ouvrage consists of one infantry block about one kilometer east of Bourg St. Maurice, on the south bank of t ...
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Ouvrage Sapey
Ouvrage Sapey is a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also known as the Little Maginot Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block, three artillery blocks and one observation block two kilometers w ...
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Ouvrage Saint-Gobain
Ouvrage Saint-Gobain is a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block, one infantry block, one artillery block, one observation block and one combination block. Located ...
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Ouvrage Saint-Antoine
Ouvrage Saint-Antoine is a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block, one infantry block and one artillery block overlooking Modane on the way to the Col du Mont Ceni ...
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Ouvrage Le Lavoir
Ouvrage Le Lavoir Is a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also called the Little Maginot Line. The ouvrage consists of two entry blocks, one infantry block, three artillery blocks and one observation ...
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Ouvrage Pas du Roc
Ouvrage Pas du Roc is a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry blocks, one infantry block, two artillery blocks and one observation block south of Modane and east of ...
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Ouvrage Arrondaz
Ouvrage Arrondaz is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also known as the Little Maginot Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block, one infantry block, and one observation block fin the v ...
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Ouvrage Les Rochilles
Ouvrage Les Rochilles is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, in the high Alps about southwest of Modane. The ouvrage consists of one entry block, two infantry blocks and one observation bloc ...
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Ouvrage Janus
Ouvrage Janus is a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, located to the east of Briançon on near the Col de Montgenèvre. The ouvrage consists of one entry block, two infantry blocks, two artillery bloc ...
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Ouvrage Col de la Buffère
Ouvrage Col de Buffere is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one combat block at an altitude of on the Col de la Buffère. Additional blocks were planned but not bui ...
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Ouvrage Col du Granon
Ouvrage Col du Granon is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block, one infantry block and one observation block covering the Col du Granon as part of the ...
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Ouvrage Les Aittes
Ouvrage Les Aittes is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block, three infantry blocks and one observation block, about two kilometers east of Cervières, H ...
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Ouvrage Gondran
Ouvrage Gondran is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block, one infantry block and one observation block. Gondran was commenced in June 1933, and was intend ...
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Ouvrage Roche-la-Croix
Ouvrage Roche-la-Croix is a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also known as the Little Maginot Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block, two infantry blocks, one artillery block and two obser ...
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Ouvrage Saint Ours Haut
Ouvrage Saint Ours Haut is a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also known as the Little Maginot Line. The ouvrage consists of one infantry block, one artillery block, two observation blocks and one c ...
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Ouvrage Plate Lombard
Ouvrage Plate Lombard is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block, two infantry blocks and one observation block. Unusually for an ''ouvrage'', Plate-Lomb ...
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Ouvrage Fontvive Nord-ouest
Ouvrage Fontvive Nord-ouest is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of two infantry blocks. While it is listed in some sources as an ''ouvrage'' owing to its construction ...
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Ouvrage Saint Ours Nord-est
Ouvrage Saint Ours Nord-est is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of two infantry blocks. The associated underground support galleries are arranged with a short gallery ...
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Ouvrage Saint Ours Bas
Ouvrage Saint Ours Bas is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one infantry block. The location is unusual in lacking the underground galleries typical of a Maginot f ...
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Ouvrage Ancien Camp
Ancien Camp is an ''abri'' or infantry shelter associated with the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The position consists of two entry blocks. Neither block was armed. One machine gun cloche and embrasures for a heavy twin machi ...
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Ouvrage Restefond
Ouvrage Restefond is a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one artillery block and three observation blocks at the summit of the Col de la Bonette. The entry block and an artill ...
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Ouvrage Col de Restefond
Ouvrage Col de Restefond is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of three infantry blocks. It is located directly adjacent to the Col de Restefond road at an altitude of . ...
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Ouvrage Granges Communes
Ouvrage Granges Communes is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one infantry block facing Italy. Additional blocks were planned but not built. Granges Communes is lo ...
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Ouvrage La Moutière
Ouvrage La Moutière is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line at an altitude of 2440 meters. The ouvrage consists of one entry block, one infantry block and one observation block, with an unarm ...
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Ouvrage Col de Crous
Ouvrage Col de Crous is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one infantry block at an altitude of . Additional blocks were planned but not built.
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Ouvrage Rimplas
Ouvrage Rimplas is a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, known also as the Little Maginot Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block, two infantry blocks and three artillery blocks at an altitude o ...
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Ouvrage Fressinéa
Ouvrage Fressinéa, also known as Fraisinéa or Frassinéa is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block, one infantry block and one observation block at an ...
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Ouvrage Valdeblore
Ouvrage Valdeblore is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block, one infantry artillery block and one observation block at an altitude of . Valdeblore was b ...
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Ouvrage Col du Caire Gros
Ouvrage Col du Caire Gros is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of two entry blocks at an altitude of . Additional blocks were planned but not built.
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Ouvrage Col du Fort
Ouvrage Col du Fort is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one infantry block and one observation block at an elevation of . An additional block was planned but not b ...
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Ouvrage Gordolon
Ouvrage Gordolon is a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also known as the Little Maginot Line. The ouvrage consists of one and two infantry blocks at an altitude of . Gordolon was built by Borie cont ...
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Ouvrage Flaut
Ouvrage Flaut is a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also called the Little Maginot Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block, one infantry block and one artillery block at an altitude of . The p ...
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Ouvrage Baisse de Saint-Véran
Ouvrage Baisse de Saint Véran is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one infantry block facing Italy. Three combat blocks and an entrance block were planned, but onl ...
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Ouvrage Plan Caval
Ouvrage Plan Caval is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also known as the Little Maginot Line. The ouvrage consists of two infantry blocks and one observation block facing Italy. The ''ouv ...
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Ouvrage La Béole
Ouvrage La Béole is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block and two observation blocks at an altitude of . The ''ouvrage'' consists of two entry blocks a ...
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Ouvrage Col d'Agnon
Ouvrage Col d'Agnon is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ouvrage consists of two entry blocks and one observation block facing Italy at an altitude of . The ''ouvrage'' was manned by 5 ...
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Ouvrage La Déa
Ouvrage La Déa, also known as the Petit Ouvrage de la baisse de la Déa, is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. The ''ouvrage'' consists of two entry blocks and one observation block facing ...
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Ouvrage Col de Brouis
Ouvrage Col de Brouis is a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also known as the Little Maginot Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block and two artillery blocks facing Italy at an altitude of . ...
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Ouvrage Monte Grosso
Ouvrage Monte Grosso is a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also known as the Little Maginot Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block, four artillery blocks and two observation blocks facing Ita ...
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Ouvrage Champ de Tir
Ouvrage Champ de Tir, also known as Champ de Tir de l'Agaisen (Agaisen firing range) is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. It is located at an altitude of , less than 1 kilometer to the nort ...
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Ouvrage L'Agaisen
Ouvrage L'Agaisen is a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also known as the Little Maginot Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block, two artillery blocks and one observation block above Sospel. ...
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Ouvrage Saint-Roch
Ouvrage Saint-Roch is a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also known as the Little Maginot Line. Small for a ''gros ouvrages'', the ouvrage consists of one entry block, one artillery block and two o ...
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Ouvrage Barbonnet
Ouvrage Barbonnet is a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also called the Little Maginot Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block and one infantry block facing Italy. The ''ouvrage'' was built ...
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Ouvrage Castillon
Ouvrage Castillon is a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also called the Little Maginot Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block, two infantry blocks, and two artillery blocks in a narrow ridge ...
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Ouvrage Col des Banquettes
Ouvrage Col des Banquettes is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also called the "Little Maginot Line". The ouvrage consists of two entry blocks and one infantry block facing Italy at the ...
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Ouvrage Sainte-Agnès
Ouvrage Sainte-Agnès was a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also called the Little Maginot Line. The fortification was built between 1932 and 1938. The site is at the south edge of the hill tow ...
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Ouvrage Col de Garde
Ouvrage Col de Garde is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also called the Little Maginot Line. The ouvrage consists of two entry blocks, one infantry block and one observation block, sligh ...
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Ouvrage Mont Agel
Ouvrage Mont Agel is a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also called the Little Maginot Line. The 1930s ''ouvrage'' was built in and around the earlier mountaintop Fortress of Mont Agel. The ''ouv ...
Ouvrage Croupe du Reservoir
Ouvrage Croupe du Réservoir is a lesser work (''petit ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line. Located on the heights of Roquebrune at an elevation of 139 meters, the ouvrage consists of one entry block and one obse ...
Fort d'Illange
The Fort d'Illange is a fortification located to the south of Thionville in the Moselle (department), Moselle department of France. It was built by Germany next to the town of Illange in the early 20th century after the annexation of the Moselle ...
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Fort de Guentrange
The Fort de Guentrange dominates Thionville in the Moselle department of France. It was built by Germany next to the town of the same name in the late 19th century after the annexation of the Moselle following the Franco-Prussian War. The Fort ...
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Fort de Koenigsmacker
The Fort de Koenigsmacker (Koenigsmaker, Königsmachern or Kœnigsmacker) is a fortification located to the northeast of Thionville in the Moselle department of France. It was built by Germany next to the town of the same name in the early 20th ...
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Fort Jeanne d'Arc
Fort Jeanne d'Arc, also called Fortified Group Jeanne d'Arc, is a fortification located to the west of Metz in the Moselle department of France. It was built by Germany to the west of the town of Rozérieulles in the early 20th century as part ...
Germany
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Ayers Kaserne
Ayers Kaserne at Kirch-Göns, Germany (coordinates: 50° 28' 46.08" N 8° 38' 41.83" E) was a U.S. Army installation built in 1952 as part of the major construction efforts under the U.S. Army troop augmentation program of the early 1950s, occupie ...
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Wildenstein Castle (Leibertingen)
Burg Wildenstein ( Leibertingen), a fortified spur castle, built between 1200 and 1300 A.D., is situated above the Danube break-through at the Swabian Alb in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It functions now as a hostel of the German Youth Hostel Asso ...
Grauerort fortress
Grauerort fortress is a German artillery fort on Elbe river about 9 km (5.6 mi) north of Stade which was built between 1869 and 1879 to defend the Port of Hamburg. Its shape is hexagonal, taking advantage of the topography of the area a ...
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Königstein Fortress
Königstein Fortress (german: Festung Königstein), the "Saxony, Saxon Bastille", is a hilltop fortress near Dresden, in Saxon Switzerland, Germany, above the town of Königstein, Saxony, Königstein on the left bank of the River Elbe. It is one ...
Petersberg Citadel
Petersberg Citadel (German:''Zitadelle Petersberg'') in Erfurt, central Germany, is one of the largest
and best-preserved town fortresses in Europe.Stadtverwaltung Erfurt (17 November 2017) ''Petersberg'' Retrieved 23 December 2017 The citadel was ...
Spandau Citadel
The Spandau Citadel (german: Zitadelle Spandau) is a fortress in Berlin, Germany, one of the best-preserved Renaissance military structures of Europe. Built from 1559–94 atop a medieval fort on an island near the meeting of the Havel and ...
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Fortress of Ulm
The fortress of Ulm (''Bundesfestung Ulm'') was one of five federal fortresses of the German Confederation around the cities of Ulm and Neu-Ulm. With its 9 km polygonal main circumvallation Ulm had the biggest fortress in Germany in the 19th ...
Amer Fort
Amer Fort or Amber Fort is a fort located in Amer, Rajasthan, India. Amer is a town with an area of located from Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan. Amber city and Amber fort were founded by ruler Alan Singh of Chanda dynasty of Meenas. Located ...
Jaisalmer Fort
Jaisalmer Fort is situated in the city of Jaisalmer, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is believed to be one of the very few "living forts" in the world (such as Carcassonne, France), as nearly one fourth of the old city's population still re ...
Golkonda Fort
Fort (Telugu: గోల్కొండ, romanized: ''Gōlkōnḍa'') is a historic fortress and ruined city located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It was originally called Mankal. The fort was originally built by Kakatiya ruler Pratāparu ...
Chapora Fort
Chapora Fort (, Devanagari: शापोरा), located in Bardez, Goa, rises high above the Chapora River. The site was the location of a fort built by Muslim ruler Adil Shah called Shahpura, whose name the Portuguese altered to Chapora. It is ...
Bellary Fort
The Bellary Fort ("Bellary Kote") was built on top of a hill called the "Ballari Gudda" or the Fort Hill. It is situated in the historic city of Bellary, in the Bellary district, in Karnataka state, India. It was built in two parts namely, the Up ...
Nahargarh Fort
Nahargarh Fort stands on the edge of the Aravalli Hills, overlooking the city of Jaipur in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Along with Amer Fort and Jaigarh Fort, Nahargarh once formed a strong defence ring for the city. The fort was originally n ...
Bhangarh Fort
The Bhangarh Fort is a 16th-century fort built in the Rajasthan state of India. The town was established during the rule of Bhagwant Das as the residence of his second son, Madho Singh. The fort and its precincts are well preserved.
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Fort Aguada
Fort Aguada is a well-preserved seventeenth-century Portuguese fort, along with a lighthouse, standing in Goa, India, on Sinquerim Beach, overlooking the Arabian Sea. It is an ASI protected Monument of National Importance in Goa.
Origins and ...
, Goa
Indonesia
Java
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Batavia Castle
Batavia Castle ( nl, Kasteel Batavia, ) was a fort located at the mouth of Ciliwung River in Jakarta. Batavia Castle was the administrative center of Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Asia.
Batavia Castle was also the residence of the Governor G ...
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Citadel Prins Frederik
The Citadel Prins Frederik, also called Fort Prins Frederik, was a fortification built in 1837 by the Dutch in Batavia (now Jakarta), in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). It was located at Wilhelmina Park, which demolished around 1961 and r ...
Fort Portuguese
The so-called Portuguese Fort, or Benteng Portugis, is a historical fort located in the village Banyumanis adjacent to the village of Ujung Batu, District of Keling, Jepara, Keling, Jepara Regency, the province of Central Java, Indonesia. It is s ...
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Fort van den Bosch
Fort van den Bosch, locally known as Benteng Pendem ("sunken fort"), is a fort located in Pelem administrative village, Ngawi (town), Ngawi Regency, Indonesia.
History
In the 19th century, was known as the center of trade and shipping in East Ja ...
Fort Vastenburg
Fort Vastenburg (Dutch "Fort Steadfast"), also Fort Surakarta, is an 18th-century Dutch fort located in Gladak, Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. A landmark of Surakarta, the fort faces polemics related with multiple owners claiming different par ...
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Fort Vredeburg
Fort Vredeburg Museum (official name: ''Museum Benteng Vredeburg Yogyakarta'') was a former colonial Fortification, fortress located in the city of Yogyakarta (city), Yogyakarta, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The military complex has b ...
Fort Amsterdam, Ambon
Fort Amsterdam (also formerly known as ''Blokhuis Amsterdam'') is a fort and a blockhouse in Hila town, Leihitu Subdistrict, Central Maluku Regency, Ambon Island, Indonesia. The blockhouse was built in 1637 by the Dutch East Indies Company.
Build ...
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Fort Belgica
Fort Belgica is a 17th-century fort in Banda Neira, Banda Islands, Maluku Islands (the Moluccas), Indonesia; administratively in Central Maluku Regency, Maluku. The fort acted as a fortification system for the islands of Banda which was the only p ...
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Fort Kalamata
Fort Kalamata is a coastal star fort that was built by the Portuguese on the island of Ternate in Indonesia's Maluku Islands. Formerly known as Benteng Kayu Merah (''Red Wood Fort'') because it is located in Kayu Merah village, Originally the for ...
Fort Tolukko
Fort Tolukko is a small fortification on the east coast of Ternate facing Halmahera. It was one of the colonial forts built to control the trade in clove spices, which prior to the eighteenth century were only found in the Maluku Islands. It has b ...
Fort Duurstede
Fort Duurstede is a 17th-century colonial Netherlands, Dutch fort in Saparua, Indonesia The fort originally protected Saparoea village. A navigation guide from 1878 advises: "There is good anchorage near this fort in the westerly monsoon in about ...
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Fort Tahula
Fort Tahula (also spelled Tohula, id, Benteng Tahula) is a 17th-century colonial fortification located in the city of Tidore built by the Spanish Empire during their colonial presence in the Indonesian Archipelago. The fort was built in 1609 by ...
Otanaha Fortress
Otanaha Fortress is one of the tourism site in Gorontalo province Suwalesi Island, Indonesia. It was built in 1522 by King Ilato from Gorontalo Kingdom and Portuguese sailors to strengthen the area security and defense. Located in Dembe Hill, this ...
Buton Palace Fortress
Buton Palace Fortress, originally the Wolio Palace, is late 16th century palatial fortress located in Baubau, Southeast Sulawesi. The palace was built in the late 16th century for Sultan Buton III, La Sangaji titled Sultan Kaimuddin (1591-1596) a ...
Fort van der Capellen
Fort van der Capellen is a small 19th-century Dutch fort in Batusangkar, West Sumatra, Indonesia. The town of Batusangkar grew considerably around the Fort van der Capellen. The fort was named after the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies Go ...
Alamut Castle
Alamut ( fa, wikt:الموت, الموت, meaning "eagle's nest") is a ruined mountain fortress located in the Alamut region in the South Caspian Sea, Caspian province of Qazvin near the Masudabad, Qazvin, Masoudabad region in Iran, approximately ...
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Ardalan Castle
Ardalan castle ( fa, قلعه اردلان) is a historical castle located in Tuyserkan County in Hamadan Province, The longevity of this fortress dates back to the Qajar dynasty
The Qajar dynasty (; fa, دودمان قاجار ', az, Qacar ...
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Ardeshir Castle
Ardeshir Castle ( fa, قلعه اردشیر) is a historical castle located in Kerman County in Kerman Province, The longevity of this fortress dates back to the Sasanian Empire
The Sasanian () or Sassanid Empire, officially known as the Emp ...
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Arg-e Bam
The Arg-e Bam ( fa, ارگ بم), located in the city of Bam, Kerman Province of southeastern Iran,
is the largest adobe building in the world. The entire building was a large fortress containing the citadel, but because the citadel dominates ...
Atashgah Castle
Atashgah Castle ( fa, قلعه آتشگاه) is a castle in the city of Kashmar, and is one of the attractions of Kashmar. This castle was built by the Sasanian government and it was famous in ancient times.
Location
The location of the castle ...
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Babak Fort
Pāpak Fort ( fa, دژ بابک) or Babak CastleBurke, Andrew and Elliott. Mark (2008) ''Iran'' Lonely Planet, Footscray, Victoria, Australiapage 159 ( fa, قلعه بابک), ″Ghal’eh-e Baz″ is a large citadel on the top of a mountai ...
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Bakhtak Leylan Castle
Bakhtak Leylan Castle ( fa, قلعه بختک لیلان) is a historical castle located in Malekan County in East Azerbaijan Province, The longevity of this fortress dates back to the Prehistoric times of ancient Iran
Iran, offic ...
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Chaleshtar Castle
Chaleshtar castle ( fa, قلعه چالشتر) is a historical castle located in Shahrekord County in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province. The longevity of this fortress dates back to the Qajar dynasty.
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Chanef Castle
Chanef castle ( fa, قلعه چانف) is a historical castle located in Nik Shahr County in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, The longevity of this fortress dates back to the Qajar dynasty
The Qajar dynasty (; fa, دودمان قاجار ', ...
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Ernan Castle
Ernan castle ( fa, قلعه ارنان) is a historical castle located in Mehriz County in Yazd Province, The longevity of this fortress dates back to the Qajar dynasty
The Qajar dynasty (; fa, دودمان قاجار ', az, Qacarlar ) was a ...
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Espakeh Castle
Espakeh castle ( fa, قلعه اسپکه) is a historical castle located in Nik Shahr County in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, The longevity of this fortress dates back to the Middle Ages Historical periods after Islam
Islam (; ar, ۘ ...
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Fort of Our Lady of the Conception
The Fort of Our Lady of the Conception, also known as the Portuguese Castle, is a red stone fortress on Hormuz Island, Iran. It is one of the last surviving monuments of Portuguese colonial rule in the Persian Gulf.
Ormuz (or Hormuz) was an im ...
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Gabri Castle, Ray
Gabri Castle ( fa, قلعه گبری) is a historical castle located in Ray County in Tehran Province, The longevity of this fortress dates back to the Sasanian Empire
The Sasanian () or Sassanid Empire, officially known as the Empire of ...
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Geli Castle
Geli Castle ( fa, قلعه گلی) is a historical castle located in Qom County in Qom Province, The longevity of this fortress dates back to the Parthian Empire
The Parthian Empire (), also known as the Arsacid Empire (), was a major Irani ...
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Gouged Stronghold
The Gouged stronghold is located in the city of Gouged, in the Golpayegan county, in Iran. The city Gouged is located 5 km to the north of Golpayegan. In peacetime, the stronghold was used as a caravansary, but during the war time or when t ...
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Iraj Castle
Iraj Castle ( fa, قلعه ایرج ''Qal'eh Iraj'') is a fortification built in 4th or 5th century AD in the central region of Rey, Iran, Ray, Sasanian Empire, near modern-day Asgarabad-e Abbasi, Iran. The monument is known for its peculiar des ...
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Izad-Khast Castle
The Izad Khast Castle is located in Izadkhast in the Fars Province, central Iran. The castle was built during the Sassanid Empire (224 to 651 AD) and functioned as fortified walled city on the ancient Silk Road that ran through central Iran. It ...
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Junqan Castle
Junqan castle ( fa, قلعه جونقان) is a historical castle located in Farsan County in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, The longevity of this fortress dates back to the Qajar dynasty
The Qajar dynasty (; fa, دودمان قاجار ...
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Jushin Castle
Jushin Castle ( fa, قلعه جوشین) is a historical castle located in Varzaqan County in East Azerbaijan Province, The longevity of this fortress dates back to the Sasanian Empire
The Sasanian () or Sassanid Empire, officially known as ...
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Kalat Ahram Castle
Kalat Ahram castle ( fa, قلعه کلات اهرم) is a historical castle located in Tangestan County in Bushehr Province, The longevity of this fortress dates back to the Qajar dynasty
The Qajar dynasty (; fa, دودمان قاجار ', ...
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Kangelo Castle
Kangelo Castle ( fa, قلعه کنگلو) is a historical fortress located in Kangelo Village, Savadkuh County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. Kangelo Castle was built during the time of the Sassanian Empire. According to historians, this castle was u ...
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Keshit Castle
Keshit castle ( fa, قلعه کشیت) is a historical castle located in Kerman County in Kerman Province, The longevity of this fortress dates back to the Seljuk Empire
The Great Seljuk Empire, or the Seljuk Empire was a high medieval, cultu ...
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Leshtan Castle
Leshtan castle ( fa, قلعه لشتان) is a historical castle located in Bandar Lengeh County
Bandar Lengeh County ( fa, شهرستان بندر لنگه) is located in Hormozgan province, Iran. The capital of the county is Bandar Lengeh
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Lisar Castle
Lisar castle ( fa, قلعه لیسار) is a historical castle located in Talesh County in Gilan Province, The longevity of this fortress dates back to the Seljuk Empire
The Great Seljuk Empire, or the Seljuk Empire was a high medieval, cult ...
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Machi Castle
Machi Castle ( fa, قلعه مچی) is a historical castle located in Hamun County in the Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran. The fortress dates back to the Safavid dynasty.-
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Mansur Kuh Castle
Mansur Kuh castle ( fa, قلعه منصور کوه; also ''Mansurkuh'' or ''Mansurakuh'') is a historical castle located in Damghan County in Semnan Province, The longevity of this fortress dates back to the Nizari Ismaili state
The Nizari sta ...
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Manujan Castle
Manujan castle ( fa, قلعه منوجان) is a historical castle
A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars debate the scope of the wo ...
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Mozaffarabad Castle
Mozaffarabad castle ( fa, قلعه مظفرآباد) is a historical castle located in Qom County in Qom Province, The longevity of this fortress dates back to the Qajar dynasty
The Qajar dynasty (; fa, دودمان قاجار ', az, Qacarl ...
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Naryn Castle, Meybod
The Naryn Castle (In Persian: نارین قلعه) or Narin Castle is a mud-adobe fort or castle in the town of Meybod, Iran. Built some 2,000 to 6,000 years ago, it has four towers and stands 40 meters (130 ft) high and contained a plumbing ...
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Qahqah Castle
Qahqah Castle ( fa, قلعه قهقه) is a historical castle located in Ravar County in Kerman Province, The longevity of this fortress dates back to the Sasanian Empire
The Sasanian () or Sassanid Empire, officially known as the Empire of ...
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Qal'eh Dokhtar
Qal'eh Dokhtar or Ghale Dokhtar or Dokhtar Castle or Dezh Dokhtar ( fa, دژ دختر, "The Maiden Castle"), is a castle made by Ardashir I, in present-day Fars, Iran, in 209 AD. It is located on a mountain slope near the Firouzabad-Kavar road.
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Rayen Castle
the Rayen Castle ( fa, ارگ راين ''Arg-e Rāyen'') is an adobe castle 100 kilometers south of Kerman province, Iran. It is situated on the outskirts of the Hezar Masjed Mountains. The medieval mudbrick city of Rayen is similar to Arg-e Bam ...
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Rey Castle
Rey Castle was an ancient castle or defensive wall, located in Cheshmeh-Ali, south of Tehran and north of Rey. The castle is located above the Fath Ali shah inscription and dates back to 4000 BC in the Medes empire. It is assumed that the ...
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Robat Castle
Robat Castle ( fa, قلعه رباط) is a historical castle located in Abarkuh County in Yazd Province, The longevity of this fortress dates back to the Safavid dynasty
The Safavid dynasty (; fa, دودمان صفوی, Dudmâne Safavi, ) w ...
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Rudkhan Castle
Rudkhan Castle ( fa, قلعه رودخان, glk, رودخان دژ); also Roodkhan Castle, is a brick and stone medieval fortress in Iran that was built by the Talysh people to defend against the Arab invaders during the Muslim conquest of Persi ...
Sang Castle
Sang Castle ( fa, قلعه سنگ) is a historical castle located in Sirjan County
Sirjan County ( fa, شهرستان سیرجان) is located in Kerman province, Iran. The capital of the county is Sirjan
Sirjan ( fa, سيرجان, also Rom ...
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Sarvestan Palace
The Sassanid Palace at Sarvestan ( fa, کاخ ساسانی سروستان ''kakh-eh Sassani-ye Sarvestan'') is a Sassanid-era building in the Iranian city of Sarvestan, some 90 km southeast from the city of Shiraz. The palace was built in ...
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Semiran Castle Samiran or Semiran ( fa, سميران) may refer to:
* Samiran, Hamadan
* Semiran, Kurdistan
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Shapur Khast
Falak-ol-Aflak ( fa, فلک الافلاک, lit=the sky of the skies) or Shapur Khast Castle ( fa, دژ شاپورخواست) is a castle situated on the top of a large hill with the same name within the city of Khorramabad, the regional capita ...
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Shavvaz Castle Shavvaz castle is a castle in Shavvaz, Iran, and is one of the attractions of Yazd Province. This castle was built by the Sasanian Empire
The Sasanian () or Sassanid Empire, officially known as the Empire of Iranians (, ) and also referred t ...
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Zahhak Castle
Zahhak Castle (or citadel) is a castle in Hashtrud, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. It is named after Zahhak, a figure in Persian mythology. According to various experts, it was inhabited from the second millennium BC until the Timurid era. It w ...
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Acre
The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial
Imperial is that which relates to an empire, emperor, or imperialism.
Imperial or The Imperial may also refer to:
Places
United States
* Imperial, California
* Imperial, Missouri
* Imp ...
* Arsuf (a.k.a. ''Apollonia'')
* Belveer
* Belvoir (a.k.a. ''Kochav Ha-Yarden'' كوكب الهوى kawkab al hwa)
* Beit Guvrin, Israel, Beth Gibelin
* Beit She'an, Besan
* Burgata, Burj al Ahmar, (a.k.a. ''khirbet Burgata'')
* Ein Bokek, Bokek Stronghold
* Antipatris, Binar Bashi (a.k.a. ''Antipatris Fortress'')
* Caesarea Maritima, Caesarea
* Cafarlet (a.k.a. ''HaBonim Fortress'')
* Azor, Casal des Plains
* Mi'ilya, Castellum Regis
* Château Pèlerin (a.k.a. ''Atlit Fortress عتليت etlit'')
* Latrun لطرون
* Le Destroit
* Kal'at Al Mina (a.k.a. ''Ashdod-Yam Fortress'') قلعة اسدود
* Masada (''Metzada'' in Hebrew)
* Migdal Afek, Mirabel (a.k.a. ''Migdal Afek'' or ''Migdal Tsedek'' or majdal yaba in Arabic)
* Montfort Castle
* Nimrod Fortress (a.k.a. ''Qal'at Namrud'')
* Qaqun, Qaqun Fortress
* Tower of David مسجد القلعه
* Sepphoris صفوريه
* Battle of Jacob's Ford, Vadum Iacob (a.k.a. ''Ateret Fortress'')
* Yehiam, Yehiam Fortress
Italy
Abruzzo
* Forte Spagnolo, L'Aquila
Aosta Valley
* Fort Bard, Bard, Italy, Bard
Apulia
* Forte a Mare, Brindisi
Liguria
* Walls of Genoa#The fortresses, Walls of Genoa
* Priamar Fortress, Savona
* Apuolė
* Aukštupėnai mound
* Karmazinai mound
* Kernavė
* Molavėnai
* Napoleon's Hill
* Pilėnai
* Ukmergė
* Voruta
Kaunas Fortress fortifications (listed in order of number)
* Seventh Fort
* Ninth Fort
Malaysia
* Fort Cornwallis
* Porta de Santiago or Fort A'Famosa
* Fort Margherita
* Fort Sylvia
* Kota Lukut
* Kota Belanda or Kota Dindingh
* Kota Ngah Ibrahim
Malta
* Fort Benghisa
* Fort Binġemma
* Cambridge Battery, Fort Cambridge
* Fort Campbell (Malta), Fort Campbell
* Fort Chambray
* Fort Delimara
* Fort Leonardo
* Fort Madalena
* Fort Manoel
* Fort Mosta
* Fort Pembroke
* Fort Ricasoli
* Fort Rinella
* Fort St Angelo, Fort Saint Angelo
* Fort Saint Elmo
* Fort San Lucian
* Fort Saint Michael
* Fort Saint Rocco
* Fort San Salvatore
* Spinola Battery, Fort Spinola
* Fort Tas-Silġ
* Fort Tigné
* Fort Verdala
Nepal
The Netherlands
* Aardenburg, Fort Nassau
* Bourtange (fort), Fort Bourtange
Forts on the Dutch Water Line
* Pampus, Fort Pampus
* Fort de Roovere
* Wierickerschans
Forts on the Stelling van Amsterdam
* Fort along Den Ham
* Fort near De Kwakel
* Muiden Fortress
* Fort Vijfhuizen
* Vuurtoreneiland
New Zealand
* Fort Ballance
* Fort Buckley
* Fort Jervois
* Gate Pā
* Harington Point
* North Head, New Zealand
* Ruapekapeka
* Stony Batter
* Wrights Hill Fortress
* Fort Amador
* Fort De Lesseps
* Fort Kobbe
* Fort Randolph (Panama)
* Fort Sherman
Peru
* Saksaywaman
Philippines
* Cuyo Fort, Cuyo Island, Palawan
* Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City
* Fort Del Pilar, Baguio City
* Fort Drum (Philippines), El Fraile Island
* Fort Hughes, Caballo Island
* Fort Frank, Carabao Island
* Fort Magsaysay, Nueva Ecija
* Fort Mills, Corregidor Island
* Fuerte de la Concepcion y del Triunfo, Fort of the Conception and the Triumph, Ozamiz City
* Fort Pilar, Zamboanga City
* Fort San Pedro, Cebu City
* Iloilo City, Fort San Pedro, Iloilo City
* Fort San Felipe (Cavite), Fort San Felipe, Cavite City
* Fort Santa Isabel, Taytay, Palawan
* Fort Santiago, Intramuros, Manila
* Gumaca, Quezon, San Diego de Alcala Fortress, Gumaca, Quezon
* Cuartel de Santo Domingo, Santa Rosa City, Laguna
* Fort Wint, Grande Island, Subic Bay
* Idjang, Batanes
* Belém Tower, Lisbon
* Citadel of Cascais
* Forts of Serra da Aguieira, Fort of Aguieira
* Forts of Ajuda
* Fort of Alqueidão
* Fort of Arpim, Bucelas, Loures
* Fort of Arrifana
* Fort of Carvalha
* Fort of Casa
* Fort of Cego
* Fort of Consolation Beach
* Fort of Cresmina
* Fort of Feira, Malveira, Mafra, Portugal, Mafra
* Fort of Feiteira
* Fort of Giribita, Oeiras, Portugal, Oeiras
* Fort of Greta (Horta), Fort of Greta, Horta, Azores, Horta
* Fort of Guincho, Cascais
* Fort of Leça da Palmeira, Porto
* Fort of Milreu, Ericeira
* Fort of Mosqueiro
* Fort of Negrito, Angra do Heroísmo
* Fort of Olheiros
* Castelo da Póvoa, Póvoa de Varzim
* Fort of Nossa Senhora da Encarnação (Carvoeiro), Fort of Nossa Senhora da Encarnação, Lagoa, Algarve, Lagoa
* Fort of Nossa Senhora da Guia (Cascais)
* Fort of Nossa Senhora das Mercês de Catalazete, Oeiras, Portugal, Oeiras
* Fort of Nossa Senhora da Rocha (Porches), Fort of Nossa Senhora da Rocha, Lagoa, Algarve, Lagoa
* Fort of Paimogo
* Fort of Pessegueiro Island, Sines
* Fort of Ponta da Bandeira, Lagos, Portugal
* Fort of Ribas
* Fort of Santa Catarina (Portimão), Fort of Santa Catarina, Portimão
* Fort of Santo António de Belixe, Sagres (Vila do Bispo), Sagres
* Fort of Santo Amaro do Areeiro, Oeiras, Portugal, Oeiras
* Fort of São Bruno, Oeiras, Portugal, Oeiras, Lisbon District
* Fort of São João Baptista (Berlengas), Fort of São João Baptista, Berlengas, Peniche, Portugal, Peniche
* Fort of São João do Arade, Lagoa, Algarve, Lagoa
* Fort of São Jorge at Oitavos
* Fort of São Julião da Barra, Oeiras, Portugal, Oeiras, Lisbon District
* Fortress of São João Baptista (Angra do Heroísmo), Fort of São João Baptista, Angra do Heroísmo
* Fort of São Pedro do Estoril, Cascais
* Fort of São Sebastião de Caparica, Almada
* Fort of São Tiago, Funchal, Madeira
* Fort of São Teodósio da Cadaveira, Estoril
* Fort of São Vicente, Torres Vedras
* Forts of Serra da Aguieira
* Fort of Subserra
* Fort of Zambujal, Mafra, Portugal, Mafra
* Peniche Fortress
* Valença, Portugal#Attractions, Valença Fortress, Valença, Portugal, Valença
Russia
* Alexandrov Kremlin
* Astrakhan Kremlin
* Fort Alexander (St. Petersburg)
* Gdov Kremlin
* Ivangorod fortress
* Kazan Kremlin
* Kolomna Kremlin
* Kronstadt, Russia, Kronstadt
* Moscow Kremlin
* Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
* Novgorod Kremlin
* Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg
* Por-Bazhyn, Tuva Republic
* Tobolsk Kremlin
* Tula Kremlin
* Vladivostok Fortress
Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Brimstone Hill, Brimstone Hill Fortress
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
* Fort Charlotte, Saint Vincent, Fort Charlotte
Saudi Arabia
* Masmak fort, Maskmak Fortress
Serbia
Singapore
* Fort Canning
* Fort Pasir Panjang
* Fort Siloso
* Fort Tanjong Katong
Sri Lanka
South Africa
* Fort Amiel Museum, Fort Amiel, KwaZulu-Natal
* Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape
* Fort Cox, Eastern Cape, Fort Cox, Eastern Cape
* Fort de Goede Hoop, Western Cape
* Fort Merensky, Mpumalanga
* Johannesburg Fort, Gauteng
* Pretoria Forts, Fort Klapperkop, Gauteng
* Pretoria Forts, Fort Schanskop, Gauteng
* Pretoria Forts, Fort Wonderboompoort, Gauteng
* Redoubt Duijnhoop, Western Cape
South Korea
* Hwaseong Fortress, Suwon
Spain
A Coruña
* Muralla de Santiago de Compostela
Albacete
* Castle of Chinchilla, Fort Chinchilla
Badajoz
* Jerez de los Caballeros, Fort Jerez de los Caballeros
Burgos
* Cartagena, Spain, Fort Cartagena
Cádiz
* Batería de Aspiroz
* Muelle de Gallineras
* Fuerte de Punta Carnero
* Fuerte de San García
* Batería de San Genís
* Castle of San Marcos (El Puerto de Santa María), Fort San Marcos
* Batería de San Melitón de la Calavera
* Castle of Sancti Petri, Fort Sancti Petri (San Fernando)
* Batería de Urrutia
Province of Castellón
* Peníscola, Fort Peníscola
Córdoba
* Molina de Aragón, Fort Molina de Aragón
Coria, Cáceres
* Coria, Cáceres, Fort Coria
Girona
* Sant Ferran Castle, Fort Sant Ferran (Figueres)
Huelva
* Cartaya, Fort Cartaya
* Niebla, Huelva, Fort Niebla
* Cortegana, Fort Cortegana
Málaga
* Muralla urbana de Marbella
Menorca
* St. Philip's Castle, Fort San Felipe
Murcia
* Caravaca de la Cruz, Fort Caravaca de la Cruz
Navarre
* Palacio Real de Olite, Fort Olite
* Fort San Cristóbal (Spain), Fort San Cristóbal
Palma de Mallorca
* Bellver, Fort Bellver
Segovia
* Alcázar of Segovia
Soria
* Berlanga de Duero, Fort Berlanga de Duero
Toledo
* Toledo, Spain, Fort Toledo
Valladolid
* Encinas de Esgueva, Fort Encinas de Esgueva
* Peñafiel Castle, Fort Peñafiel
* Simancas, Fort Simancas
* Villalba de los Alcores, Fort Villalba de los Alcores
* Cihou Fort
* Eternal Golden Castle
* Fort Provintia
* Fort Santo Domingo
* Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan), Fort Zeelandia
* Huwei Fort
* Uhrshawan Battery
Turkey
* Anadoluhisarı
* Dardanelles Fortified Area Command
* Diyarbakır Fortress
* Rumelihisarı
* Şeytan Castle
* Trapessac
* Walls of Constantinople
* Yedikule Fortress
Ukraine
* Dubno Castle
* Kyiv fortress
* Kodak Fortress
* Letychiv Fortress
* Lutsk Castle
* Lysa Hora (Kyiv), Lysa Hora
* Medzhybizh Fortress
* Okopy Świętej Trójcy
* Ostroh Castle
* Sevastopol
* Zaporizhian Sich
United Arab Emirates
* Al Baithnah Fort
* Al Fahidi Fort
* Al Mahatta Fort
* Al Jahili Fort
* Fujairah Fort
* Qasr al-Hosn
* Sakamkam Fort
* Sharjah Fort
United Kingdom
See also the List of castles#Castles in the United Kingdom, list of castles, as many early forts were called castles, and many castle sites were reused for later fortifications. Also Palmerston Forts lists the many British fortifications built in the 1860s.
England
General
* Maunsell Sea Forts
SE England
* Dymchurch Redoubt
* Eastbourne Redoubt
* Fort Burgoyne
* Admiralty Pier Turret
* Dover Western Heights
* Littlehampton Fort
* Newhaven Fort
* Saxon Shore forts
* Shoreham Redoubt
Thames
* Coalhouse Fort
* Cliffe-at-Hoo#Cliffe Fort, Cliffe Fort
* New Tavern Fort
* Shornmead Fort
* Slough Fort
* Tilbury Fort
Medway
* Fort Horsted
* Fort Amherst
* Fort Borstal
* Fort Bridgewood
* Fort Clarence
* Fort Darnet
* Fort Luton
* Fort Hoo
* Fort Pitt, Kent, Fort Pitt
* Garrison Point Fort
* Grain Fort & Grain Tower Battery
Solent
;Portsdown Hill
** Crookhorn Redoubt
** Fort Fareham
** Farlington Redoubt
** Fort Nelson, Portsmouth, Fort Nelson
** Fort Southwick
** Fort Purbrook
** Fort Wallington
** Fort Widley
;Gosport
** Fort Blockhouse
** Fort Brockhurst
** Fort Elson
** Fort Gilkicker
** Fort Grange
** Fort Monckton
** Fort Rowner
*Portsmouth
** Fort Cumberland (England), Fort Cumberland
** Lumps Fort
*Sea Forts
** Horse Sand Fort
** No Mans Land Fort
** Spitbank Fort
** St Helens Fort
*Isle of Wight
SW England
*Bideford
**Chudleigh Fort
* Berry Head
* Bristol Channel
** Brean Down Fort
*Dartmouth, Devon, Dartmouth
** Bayard's Cove Fort
*Plymouth
** Royal Citadel, Plymouth, Royal Citadel
** St Budeaux#Agaton Fort, Agaton Fort
** Plymouth Breakwater#Plymouth Breakwater Fort, Breakwater Fort
** Cawsand Fort
** Crownhill Fort
** Ernesettle#Ernesettle Fort, Ernesettle Fort
** Fort Bovisand
** Picklecombe Fort
** Polhawn Fort
** Fort Scraesdon
** Fort Tregantle
** Whitsand Bay#Whitsand Bay Fortifications, Whitesand Bay Battery
** Woodlands Fort
*Isle of Portland
** Verne Citadel
** East Weare Battery
** High Angle Battery
** Blacknor Fort
* Weymouth Bay, Weymouth
** Nothe Fort
East Anglia
* Bath Side Battery
* Beacon Hill Battery
* Harwich Redoubt
* Landguard Fort
* Shotley Battery
NW England
* Liscard Battery#History, Liscard Battery
* Fort Perch Rock#Fort Perch Rock, Fort Perch Rock
NE England
* The Humber Forts
* Fort Paull
* The Tyne Turrets
Scotland
* Fort Charlotte (Shetland), Fort Charlotte, Shetland
* Fort George, Scotland
Wales
*Milford Haven
** Dale Fort
** Fort Hubberstone
** Popton Fort
** Pill Fort
** Chapel Bay Fort
** South Hook Fort
** Scoveston Fort, Fort Scoveston
** Stack Rock Fort
** Thorn Island, Thorn Island Fort
* St Catherine's Island, St Catherine's Fort
* Fort Belan
United States
Alabama
* Fort Armstrong (Alabama), Fort Armstrong
* Fort Bainbridge
* Fort Bibb
* Fort Bowyer
* Fort Carney
* Fort Claiborne
* Fort Crawford (Alabama), Fort Crawford
* Fort Dale
* Fort Decatur (Alabama), Fort Decatur
* Fort Gaines (Alabama), Fort Gaines
* Fort Harker (Alabama), Fort Harker
* Fort Jackson (Alabama), Fort Jackson
* Fort Louis de la Mobile
* Fort McClellan
* Fort Mims massacre, Fort Mims
* Fort Mitchell Historic Site, Fort Mitchell
* Fort Morgan (Alabama), Fort Morgan
* Fort Rucker
* Fort Sinquefield
* Fort Stoddert
* Fort Strother
* Fort Williams (Alabama), Fort Williams
Alaska
*Fort Abercrombie State Historical Park, Fort Abercrombie
*Fort Davis, Alaska, Fort Davis
*Fort Egbert
*Fort Gibbon
*Fort Greely
*Fort Liscum
*Fort McGilvray
*Fort Randall Army Airfield
*Fort Raymond (Alaska)
*Fort Richardson (Alaska), Fort Richardson
*Sitka Naval Operating Base and U.S. Army Coastal Defenses, Fort Rousseau
*Fort St. Michael
*Fort Schwatka
*Fort Wainwright
*Fort William H. Seward
*Fort Yukon
Arizona
* Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Fort Apache
* Fort Bowie
* Fort Buchanan, Arizona, Fort Buchanan
* Fort Crittenden
* Fort Defiance, Arizona, Fort Defiance
* Fort Grant, Arizona, Fort Grant
* Fort Huachuca
* Fort Lowell
* Fort McDowell, Arizona, Fort McDowell
* Sharlot Hall Museum#Overview, Fort Misery
* Fort Mojave
* Joseph City, Arizona#Images of Joseph City, The Old Fort (Mormon)
* Fort Tyson
* List of historic properties in Mesa, Arizona#Old Fort Utah, Fort Utah
* Fort Verde State Historic Park, Fort Verde
* Fort Whipple, Arizona, Fort Whipple
* Fort Yuma
Arkansas
* Fort Lookout (Arkansas), Fort Lookout
California
Colorado
Connecticut
* Fort Griswold
* Fort Nathan Hale
* Fort Trumbull
Delaware
* Fort Casimir
* Fort Christina
* Fort Delaware
* Fort DuPont
* Fort Miles
* Fort Saulsbury
Florida
* Fort DeSoto
Georgia
*Fort Benning
*Fort Gaines, Georgia, Fort Gaines
*Fort Gordon
*Fort Frederica
*Fort Gillem
*Fort Hawkins
*Fort James Jackson (aka Old Fort Jackson or Fort Oglethorpe), historic fort open to the public
*Fort King George
*Fort McAllister
*Fort McPherson
*Battle of Fort Peter, Fort at Point Petre, aka Fort Point Peter
*Fort Pulaski
*Fort Screven
*Fort Stewart
Hawaii
* Fort DeRussy Military Reservation, Fort DeRussy
* Fort Hase
* Fort Kamehameha
* Fort Ruger
* Russian Fort Elizabeth
* Schofield Barracks
* Fort Shafter
Idaho
* Fort Boise
* Camp Connor
* Fort Hall
* Fort Lapwai
Illinois
* Fort Armstrong, Illinois, Fort Armstrong
* Fort de Chartres
* Fort Dearborn
* Fort Johnson
* Fort Kaskaskia
* Fort Massac
Indiana
* Fort Benjamin Harrison
* Forts of Vincennes, Indiana, Fort Sackville
* Forts of Vincennes, Indiana, Fort Knox
* Forts of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Fort Miami
* Fort Ouiatenon
* Forts of Vincennes, Indiana, Fort Patrick Henry
* Forts of Vincennes, Indiana, Fort Vincennes
* Forts of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Fort Wayne
Iowa
* Fort Atkinson State Preserve, Fort Atkinson
* Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School, Fort Des Moines I, II, and III
* Fort Dodge
* Fort Madison
Kansas
* Fort Aubrey
* Aubry's Post
* Fort Bain
* Barnesville's Post
* Fort Belmont
* Fort Blair (Fort Scott)
* Fort Brooks
* Burlingame's Fort
* Camp Ben Butler
* Fort de Cavagnial
* Chapman's Dugout
* Fort Clifton (Kansas), Fort Clifton
* Fort Clinton
* Coldwater Grove's Post
* Council Grove's Post
* Camp Defiance
* Fort Dodge (United States Army Post), Fort Dodge
* Fort Drinkwater
* Camp Drywood
* Eggert House
* Fort Ellsworth (Kansas), Fort Ellsworth
* Fort Folly
* Fort Harker (Kansas), Fort Harker
* Fort Hays
* Fort Henning
* Camp Hunter
* Indian Home Guard Camp (Baxter Springs)
* Fort Insley
* Fort Lane (Kansas), Fort Lane
* Fort Larned National Historic Site, Fort Larned
* Fort Leavenworth
* Fort Lincoln (Kansas), Fort Lincoln
* Fort Lincoln blockhouse
* Fort Lookout (Kansas), Fort Lookout
* Fort McKean
* Fort Montgomery (Eureka)
* Fort Montgomery (Linn County)
* Mount Oread Civil War posts
* Fort Riley
* Fort Row
* Fort Scott National Historic Site, Fort Scott
* Fort Simple
* Fort Solomon
* Fort Sully (Fort Leavenworth)
* Fort Sumner
* Fort Wallace
* Fort Zarah
Kentucky
* Bryan Station
* Corn Island (Kentucky), Corn Island
* Floyd's Station (Kentucky), Floyd's Station
* New Haven Battlefield Site#Fort Allen, Fort Allen
* Fort Boonesborough State Park, Fort Boonesborough
* Fort Campbell
* Fort DeWolf
* Fort Duffield
* Fort Hill (Frankfort, Kentucky), Fort Hill, Frankfort
* Fort Jefferson (Kentucky), Fort Jefferson
* Fort Knox
* Old Fort Harrod State Park, Fort Harrod
* Fort Hartford
* Fort Donelson National Battlefield, Fort Heiman
* Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park, Fort Nelson, Jessamine County, Kentucky, Jessamine County
* Fort Nelson (Kentucky), Fort Nelson, Louisville
* Fort-on-Shore
* Fort Thomas, Kentucky, Fort Thomas
* Fort Vienna
* Fort William (Kentucky), Fort William
* Low Dutch Station
* Newport Barracks
* Springs Station, Kentucky, Springs Station
Louisiana
* Fort Jackson, Louisiana, Fort Jackson
* Fort Dylan
* Fort Pike
* Fort Polk
* Fort Proctor, Fort Proctor / Fort Beauregard
* Fort St. Philip
Maine
*Fort Allen (Maine), Fort Allen
*Fort Baldwin
*Fort Edgecomb
*Fort Foster (Kittery, Maine), Fort Foster
*Fort George (Castine, Maine), Fort George
*Fort Gorges
*Fort Halifax (Maine), Fort Halifax
*Fort Kent (fort), Fort Kent
*Fort Knox (Maine), Fort Knox
*Fort Levett
*Fort Lyon (Maine), Fort Lyon
*Fort McClary
*Fort McKinley (Maine), Fort McKinley
*Fort O'Brien
*Fort Pentagouet
*Peaks Island Military Reservation
*Fort Popham
*Fort Preble
*Fort Scammel
*Fort Sullivan (Maine), Fort Sullivan
*Fort Sumner (Maine), Fort Sumner
*Fort Western
*Fort Williams (Maine), Fort Williams
*Fort William Henry (Pemaquid Beach, Maine), Fort William Henry
Maryland
* Fort Armistead
* Fort Carroll
* Fort Cumberland (Maryland), Fort Cumberland
* Fort Defiance (Maryland), Fort Defiance
* Fort Detrick
* Fort Frederick State Park, Fort Frederick
* Fort George G. Meade
* Fort Marshall
* Fort McHenry
* Fort Severn
* Fort Washington Park, Fort Washington
Massachusetts
* Acushnet Fort
* Fort Andrew
* Fort Andrews
* Fort Banks (Massachusetts), Fort Banks
* Beverly Fort
* Cow Fort
* Fort Dawes
* Fort Defiance (Massachusetts), Fort Defiance
* Fort Devens
* Fort Duvall
* East Point Military Reservation
* Eastern Point Fort
* Gilbert Heights Fort
* Fort Glover
* Fort Heath
* Fort Independence (Massachusetts), Fort Independence
* Fort Juniper
* Fort Lee (Salem, Massachusetts), Fort Lee
* Long Point Battery
* Fort Miller (Massachusetts), Fort Miller
* Fort Nichols (Massachusetts), Fort Nichols
* Old Stone Fort (Massachusetts), Old Stone Fort
* Fort Philip
* Fort Phoenix
* Fort Pickering
* Fort Revere
* Fort Ridiculous
* Fort Rodman
* Fort Ruckman
* Fort at Salisbury Point
* Stage Fort
* Fort Standish (Boston, Massachusetts), Fort Standish (Boston)
* Fort Standish (Plymouth, Massachusetts), Fort Standish (Plymouth)
* Fort Strong
* Fort Rodman, Fort Taber
* Fort Useless
* Fort Warren (Massachusetts), Fort Warren
* Fort Washington (Massachusetts), Fort Washington
* Fort Winthrop
Michigan
* Fort de Buade
* Fort Detroit
* Fort Holmes
* Fort Mackinac
* Fort Miami (Michigan), Fort Miami
* Fort Michilimackinac
* Fort St. Joseph (Niles, Michigan), Fort St. Joseph (Niles)
* Fort St. Joseph (Port Huron), rebuilt as Fort Gratiot
* Fort Wayne (Detroit)
Minnesota
* Fort Beauharnois
* Fort Duquesne (Minnesota), Fort Duquesne
* Fort L'Huillier
* Fort Ridgely
* Fort Ripley (Minnesota fort), Fort Ripley
* Fort St. Charles
* Fort Snelling
Mississippi
* Fort Massachusetts (Mississippi), Fort Massachusetts
* Fort Maurepas
Missouri
* Fort Bellefontaine
* Fort Cap au Gris
* Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, Fort Leonard Wood
* Fort Osage
* Jefferson Barracks Military Post, Jefferson Barracks
Montana
* Fort Assinniboine
* Fort C. F. Smith (Fort Smith, Montana), Fort C. F. Smith
* Fort Ellis
* Fort Keogh
* Fort Parker
* Fort William Henry Harrison
* Fort Missoula
Nebraska
* Fort Atkinson (Nebraska), Fort Atkinson
* Camp Atlanta
* Bordeaux Trading Post
* Cabanne's Trading Post
* Fort Calhoun
* Fort Carlos
* Columbus Post
* Fort Cottonwood
* Offutt Air Force Base#Camp Crook, Fort Crook
* Fontenelle's Post
* Grand Island, Nebraska, Post at Grand Island
* Fort Heath
* Fort Kearny
* Fort Kiowa
* Fort Lisa (Nebraska), Fort Lisa
* Fort McPherson, Nebraska, Fort McPherson
* Fort Mitchell, Nebraska, Fort Mitchell
* Fort Niobrara
* Omaha Quartermaster Depot
* Fort Omaha
* Pilcher's Post
* Ponca Fort (Nanza)
* Fort Robinson
* Camp Sheridan (Nebraska), Camp Sheridan
* Camp Sheridan (Nebraska), Fort Sheridan
* Sherman Barracks
* Fort Sidney
Nevada
* Fort Churchill State Historic Park, Fort Churchill
* Fort McDermit
* Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park, Old Mormon Fort
* Fort Ruby
* Fort Schellbourne
New Hampshire
* Fort Constitution
* Fort Dearborn (New Hampshire), Fort Dearborn
* Fort at Number 4
* Fort Stark
* Fort Wentworth
* Fort William and Mary
New Jersey
*Fort Billingsport
*Fort Dix
*Highlands Military Reservation
*Fort Lee Historic Park, Fort Lee
*Fort Hancock, New Jersey, Fort Hancock
*Fort Mercer
*Fort Monmouth
*Fort Mott (New Jersey), Fort Mott
*Fortifications of New Netherland
*Fort Nonsense (Morristown, New Jersey), Fort Nonsense
New Mexico
* Fort Bascom
* Bayard, New Mexico, Fort Bayard
* Fort Craig
* Fort Cummings
* Fort Fauntleroy (aka Fort Wingate)
* Fort Fillmore
* Fort Marcy (New Mexico), Fort Marcy
* Fort Selden
* Fort Stanton
* Fort Sumner
* Fort Tularosa
* Fort Union National Monument, Fort Union
* Fort Wingate (aka Fort Lyon)
New York
*Fort Amsterdam
*Castle Clinton
*Fort Clinton
*Fort Columbus
*Fort Crown Point
*Fort Drum
*Fort Gansevoort
*Fort Gibson (New York and New Jersey), Fort Gibson
*Fort Greene Park, Fort Greene
*Fort Hamilton
*Camp Hero
*Fort Jay
*Fort Lafayette
*Fort Lévis
*Madison Barracks, begun as Fort Pike
*Fort Michie
*Fort Montgomery (Hudson River)
*Fort Montgomery (Lake Champlain)
*Forts of New Netherland
*Fort Niagara
*Fort Ontario
*Fort de La Présentation
*Fort Schuyler
*Fort Slocum (New York), Fort Slocum
*Fort Stanwix, reconstructed living history museum
*Fort Terry
*Fort Ticonderoga
*Fort Tilden
*Fort Totten (New York), Fort Totten
*Gardiners Point Island, Fort Tyler
*Fort Wadsworth
*Fort Washington (New York), Fort Washington
*Fort William Henry
*Castle Williams
*Fort Wood (New York), Fort Wood
*Fort H. G. Wright
North Carolina
*Fort Bragg (North Carolina), Fort Bragg
*Fort Caswell
*Fort Fisher
*Fort Greene, North Carolina, Fort Greene
*Fort Hampton
*Fort Johnston (North Carolina), Fort Johnston
*Fort Macon
North Dakota
* Fort Abercrombie
* Fort Abraham Lincoln
* Fort Buford
* Fort Clark Trading Post State Historic Site, Fort Clark
* Fort Mandan
* Fort Ransom, North Dakota, Fort Ransom
* Fort Stevenson
* Fort Totten State Historic Site, Fort Totten
* Fort Union (North Dakota), Fort Union
Ohio
Oklahoma
* Fort Arbuckle (Oklahoma), Fort Arbuckle
* Fort Cobb, Oklahoma, Fort Cobb
* Fort Gibson
* Camp Gruber
* Fort McCulloch
* Camp Nichols, Fort Nichols
* Fort Reno (Oklahoma), Fort Reno
* Fort Sill
* Fort Supply (Oklahoma), Fort Supply
* Fort Towson
* Fort Washita
* Fort Wayne (Indian Territory), Fort Wayne
Oregon
* Fort Astoria
* Fort Clatsop
* Fort Dalles
* Fort Hoskins
* Fort Klamath
* Fort Lane (Oregon), Fort Lane
* Fort Stevens (Oregon), Fort Stevens
* Fort William (Oregon), Fort William
* Fort Yamhill
Pennsylvania
* Fort Allen (Pennsylvania), Fort Allen
* Fort Antes
* Fort Augusta
* Fort Bedford
* Fort Black
* Fort Bosley
* Fort Deshler
* Fort Dickinson
* Fort Dupuy
* Fort Duquesne
* Fort Gaddis
* Fort Granville
* Fort Halifax (Pennsylvania), Fort Halifax
* Fort Hunter, Pennsylvania, Fort Hunter
* Fort Hyndshaw
* Fort Indiantown Gap
* Fort Jones (Mount Oliver)
* Fort Juniata Crossing
* Fort Lafayette (Pennsylvania), Fort Lafayette
* Fort Laughlin
* Fort Le Boeuf
* Fort Ligonier
* Fort Loudoun (Pennsylvania), Fort Loudoun
* Fort Machault
* Fort McIntosh (Pennsylvania), Fort McIntosh
* Fort Mifflin
* Fort Necessity
* Fort Piper
* Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania), Fort Pitt
* Fort Presque Isle
* Fort Prince George
* Fort Robert Smalls
* Fort Roberdeau
* Fort Shirley
* Fort Venango
* Forty Fort
* Harbor Defenses of the Delaware
* Light's Fort
* List of forts in Washington County, Pennsylvania
* Redstone Old Fort
* Spark's Fort (Pennsylvania), Spark's Fort
Puerto Rico
* Fort Amezquita
* Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico
* El Cañuelo
* Castillo San Cristóbal (San Juan), Castillo San Cristóbal
* Fort San Felipe del Morro
* Fortín de San Gerónimo
* Fuerte de Vieques
Rhode Island
*Fort Adams
*Goat Island (Rhode Island), Fort Anne
*Fort Barton Site, Fort Barton
*Fort Burnside
*Fort Church (Rhode Island), Fort Church
*Fort Dumpling
*Fort Getty
*Fort Greble (Rhode Island), Fort Greble
*Fort Greene (Narragansett, Rhode Island), Fort Greene (Narragansett)
*Fort Greene (Newport, Rhode Island), Fort Greene (Newport)
*Fort Hamilton Historic District, Fort Hamilton
*Fort Kearny (Rhode Island), Fort Kearny
*Fort Mansfield
*Fort Ninigret
*Queen's Fort
*Fort Varnum
*Fort Wetherill
*Fort Wolcott
South Carolina
*The Battery (Charleston), The Battery
*Fort Charlotte (South Carolina), Fort Charlotte
*Fort Fremont
*Fort Howell
*Fort Jackson (South Carolina), Fort Jackson
*Fort Lyttelton Site, Fort Lyttleton, also called Fort Marion
*Fort Motte
*Fort Moultrie
*Ninety Six National Historic Site, Old Ninety Six and Star Fort
*Castle Pinckney
*Fort Prince George (South Carolina), Fort Prince George
*Fort Sumter
*Fort Wagner
*Fort Walker (Hilton Head), Fort Walker, also called Fort Welles
South Dakota
* Fort Meade (South Dakota), Fort Meade
* Fort Randall, South Dakota, Fort Randall
* Fort Sully (South Dakota), Fort Sully
Tennessee
Texas
* Alamo Mission in San Antonio, The Alamo
* Fort Bliss
* Fort Brown
* Fort Concho
* Fort Crockett
* Fort D. A. Russell (Texas), Fort D. A. Russell
* Fort Davis National Historic Site, Fort Davis
* Fort Hood
* Fort Saint Louis (Texas), Fort Saint Louis
* Fort Wolters
* Fort Worth
Utah
* Fort Buenaventura
* Cove Fort
* Fort Deseret
* Fort Douglas
* Fort Duchesne, Utah, Fort Duchesne
* Fort Cameron
* Fort Utah
Vermont
Virginia
*Fort A.P. Hill
*Fort Albany (Arlington, Virginia), Fort Albany
*Craney Island (Virginia), Craney Island Fort
*Fort Ethan Allen (Arlington, Virginia), Fort Ethan Allen
*Fort Eustis
*Fort Hunt Park, Fort Hunt
*Cape Charles Air Force Station, Fort John Custis
*Fort Lee (Virginia), Fort Lee
*Fort Loudoun (Virginia), Fort Loudoun
*Fort Monroe
*Fort Nelson (Virginia), Fort Nelson
*Fort Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Fort Norfolk
*Fort Myer
*Fort Pickett
*Fort Richardson (Arlington, Virginia), Fort Richardson
*Battery Rodgers
*Fort Scott (Arlington, Virginia), Fort Scott
*Fort Story
*Fort Ward (Virginia), Fort Ward
*Fort Wool
Virgin Islands (U.S.)
* Fort Christian
* Fort Frederik
* Fort Segarra
Washington
* Fort Columbia
* Fort Colville
* Fort Dent
* Fort George Wright
* Fort Lawton
* Fort Lewis (Washington), Fort Lewis
* Fort Nez Percés (aka Old Fort Walla Walla)
* Fort Nisqually
* Fort Okanogan
* Fort Simcoe
* Fort Vancouver
* Fort Walla Walla
* Fort Ward (Washington), Fort Ward
* Fort Worden
Washington, D.C.
* Fort DeRussy (Washington, D.C.), Fort DeRussy
* Fort McNair
* Fort Stanton (Washington, D.C.), Fort Stanton
* Fort Stevens (Washington, D.C.), Fort Stevens
* Fort Totten, Washington, D.C., Fort Totten
* The Pentagon
West Virginia
* Fort Ashby
* White Top, Fort Milroy
* Fort Pearsall
* Prickett's Fort
* Fort Randolph (West Virginia), Fort Randolph
Wisconsin
* Fort Crawford
* Fort Howard (Wisconsin), Fort Howard
* Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, Fort McCoy
* Fort Shelby (Wisconsin), Fort Shelby/Fort McKay
* Fort Winnebago
* Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, Fort Atkinson
Wyoming
* Fort Bridger
* Fort Caspar
* Fort D.A. Russell (Wyoming), Fort D.A. Russell
* Fort Fetterman
* Fort Francis E. Warren, now the Francis E. Warren Air Force Base
* Fort Halleck (Wyoming), Fort Halleck
* Fort Laramie
* Fort Phil Kearny
* Fort Platte
* Fort Reno (Wyoming), Fort Reno
* Fort Sanders (Wyoming), Fort Sanders
* Camp Stambaugh (Wyoming), Camp Stambaugh
* Fort Supply (Utah Territory), Fort Supply
* Fort Washakie
* Fort Yellowstone
Cities and areas with "Fort" in the name
* Fort Bragg, California
* Fort Bridger, Wyoming
* Fort Collins, Colorado
* Fort Garland, Colorado
* Fort Hunt, Virginia
* Fort Laramie, Wyoming
* Fort Lauderdale, Florida
* Fort Lawn, South Carolina
* Fort Lee, New Jersey
* Fort Lupton, Colorado
* Fort Mill, South Carolina
* Fort Morgan, Colorado
* Fort Myers, Florida
* Fort Pierre, South Dakota
* Fort Rock, Oregon
* Fort Smith, Arkansas
* Fort Stockton, Texas
* Fort Thomas, Kentucky
* Fort Walton Beach, Florida
* Fort Washakie, Wyoming
* Fort Wayne, Indiana
* Fort Worth, Texas