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Izmail Fortress

🇺🇦 Ukraine · 16th century

Izmail Fortress in Ukraine
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Izmail Fortress was an Ottoman stronghold in the southernmost part of modern-day Ukraine, near the border with Romania and on a branch of the Danube Delta.

Text adapted from “Izmail Fortress” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Izmail Fortress ranks #2,813 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #35 of the 98 mapped in Ukraine. Founded 1592, it is older than 38% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 437 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how Ukraine compares in the castle statistics.

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