Ukraine · 7th century
The Chernihiv detinets, or Val, is the central and oldest part of Chernihiv, where the main town fortifications stood in the Old Rus' era and in the 16th–17th centuries. It is located on a high spur of the right bank of the Desna valley, bounded on two sides by the river and its tributary the Stryzhen.
Machine-translated from “Черниговский детинец” on the Russian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chernihiv Val ranks #7,488 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #107 of the 195 mapped in Ukraine. Founded c. 650, it is older than 96% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 39 atlas entries founded in the 7th century. See how Ukraine compares in the castle statistics.
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