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Karksi Castle

Estonia · 13th century

Karksi Castle in Estonia
Photo: Laima Gūtmane (simka… · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Karksi Castle ranks #5,386 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #28 of the 36 mapped in Estonia. Founded c. 1250, it is older than 67% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1091 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Estonia compares in the castle statistics.

Karksi Castle (Estonian Karksi ordulinnus) was an order castle of the Livonian Order. The ruins of the castle are located in Karksi (Baltic German: Karkus), Estonia.

Machine-translated from “Ordensburg Karkus” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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