Fortress
Dongnaeeupseong Fortress
🇰🇷 South Korea · 11th century
Dongnaeeupseong (Korean: 동래읍성; Hanja: 東萊邑城) is a Goryeo-era Korean fortress in Dongnae District, Busan, South Korea. it is located on the mountain Maansan.
The fortress was lived in and used for many centuries, with the exception of around the 17th to mid-18th centuries. It stopped being used in the mid-20th century. Now, it is a popular tourist attraction.
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Dongnaeeupseong Fortress ranks #3,543 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #14 of the 56 mapped in South Korea. Founded 1021, it is older than 94% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 171 atlas entries founded in the 11th century. See how South Korea compares in the castle statistics.
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