Fortress
Fort Sadras
🇮🇳 India · 18th century
Fort Sadras is a VOC fort on the Coromandel Coast of India. The fort was built at the beginning of the 18th century as a fortification of an earlier established trading lodge, also called a factory. In the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War parts of the fort were blown up by the British. The remains were restored at the beginning of the 1990s by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
Machine-translated from “Fort Sadras” on the Dutch Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Sadras ranks #8,086 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #177 of the 179 mapped in India. Founded 1711, it is older than 21% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 556 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. See how India compares in the castle statistics.
View on the interactive castle map →Frequently asked questions
Where is Fort Sadras?
Fort Sadras stands in India, at 12.52556°, 80.16389°.
When was Fort Sadras built?
The atlas dates its founding to 1711. Earlier structures may have stood on the site; this is the earliest documented founding year.
How famous is Fort Sadras?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #8,086 of 8,134 worldwide, and #177 in India. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Fort Sadras?
Fort St. George, about 63 km away.
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