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Fortress

Fort Balibo

Timor-Leste · 17th century

Founded
c. 1650
Heritage status
Heritage of Portuguese Influence
Location
Bobonaro Municipality
Coordinates
-8.96854°, 125.0425°
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Fort Balibo in Timor-Leste
Photo: Isabel Nolasco · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Balibo Fort (Portuguese: Tranqueira de Balibó) is a 17th-century Portuguese fort in Balibo, East Timor. The rendered stone walls form roughly a pentagon. The fort was equipped with cannons, some of which can still be seen today.

Machine-translated from “Balibo (Festung)” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Fort Balibo ranks #7,719 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #2 of the 2 mapped in Timor-Leste. Founded c. 1650, it is older than 25% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 710 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. See how Timor-Leste compares in the castle statistics.

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