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Kii Castle
🇯🇵 Japan · 7th century
Kii Castle (基肄城, Kii-jō or Kii-no-ki) was an ancient castle (also known as a Korean-style fortresses in Japan (朝鮮式山城, Chōsen-shiki yamajiro) straddling Mt. Kizan(ja:基山) where the border between the city of Chikushino, Fukuoka and the town of Kiyama, Saga Prefecture Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1937, and raised to a Special Historic Site since 1954.
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Kii Castle ranks #3,372 of 3,811 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #183 of the 229 mapped in Japan. Founded 665, it is older than 98% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 17 atlas entries founded in the 7th century. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.
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