Belarus · 16th century
Kaźjany Castle (Belarusian: Казьянскі замак) existed in the 16th century to the north of the village of Kozyany in the Vitebsk powiat (present-day Shumilino district, Vitebsk region, Belarus). It was built in 1563 during the Livonian War of 1558–1583 on the orders of the Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible as a frontier fortress. It was destroyed in 1579 by the troops of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Machine-translated from “Козьян (крепость)” on the Russian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kaźjany Castle ranks #7,275 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #44 of the 45 mapped in Belarus. Founded 1563, it is older than 36% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 891 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how Belarus compares in the castle statistics.
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