Tunisia · 16th century
Bordj el Kebir ranks #8,227 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #25 of the 33 mapped in Tunisia. Founded c. 1550, it is older than 36% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 887 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how Tunisia compares in the castle statistics.
Bordj el Kebir (Arabic: البرج الكبير), also called the kasbah of Mahdia, is a 16th-century Ottoman military fortress located on the peninsula of Mahdia, Tunisia.
Machine-translated from “Borj El Kebir (Mahdia)” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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