Algeria · 16th century
El Mokrani Fort ranks #8,650 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #22 of the 24 mapped in Algeria. Founded c. 1525, it is older than 41% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 887 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. The nearest day-trip guide is Bordj Bou Arreridj, 1 km away. See how Algeria compares in the castle statistics.
The El Mokrani Fort (in Arabic: برج المقراني and in Tifinagh: ⴱⵓⵔⵊ ⵍⵎⵓⵇⵔⴰⵏⵉ), or castle of El Mokrani, is a bordj situated in Bordj Bou Arreridj, whose origin goes back to the beginning of the 16th century, when it was first built by Hassan Pasha, son of Kheir-Eddine.
Machine-translated from “Bordj El Mokrani” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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