Fortress
Fort Lijdzaamheid
🇲🇿 Mozambique
Fort Lijdzaamheid was a Dutch VOC fort in Mozambique from 1721 to 1730. The fort lay on the northern side of Delagoa Bay where the Rio de la Goa empties. At this spot the Mozambican capital Maputo would later be founded.
Various disastrous factors led to the trading post becoming an expensive failure for the VOC.
Machine-translated from “Fort Lijdzaamheid (Mozambique)” on the Dutch Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Lijdzaamheid ranks #8,044 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #5 of the 8 mapped in Mozambique. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Mozambique compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Fort Lijdzaamheid?
Fort Lijdzaamheid stands in Mozambique, at -25.96667°, 32.56667°.
How famous is Fort Lijdzaamheid?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #8,044 of 8,134 worldwide, and #5 in Mozambique. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Fort Lijdzaamheid?
Maputo Fortress, about 1 km away.
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