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Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam

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Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam in Suriname
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Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam is a fort in Suriname built from 1734 to 1747 at the confluence of the Suriname and Commewijne rivers. It is open to the public as an open-air museum.

Text adapted from “Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam ranks #2,896 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #2 of the 2 mapped in Suriname. See how Suriname compares in the castle statistics.

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