Russia
Dzivgis Cave Fortress ranks #7,231 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #127 of the 145 mapped in Russia. See how Russia compares in the castle statistics.
The Dzivgis rock-cut (cave, fore-cave) fortress (Ossetian: Дзывгъисы фидар) is a complex of defensive structures in varying states of preservation, located in the almost deserted North Ossetian village of Dzivgis. The Dzivgis complex consists of 6 caves of various sizes, to which stone fortifications have been added.
Machine-translated from “Дзивгисская крепость” on the Russian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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