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Kinburn
🇺🇦 Ukraine · 17th century
Kinburn (Ukrainian Кінбурн; Turkish Kilburun – translated "fine (narrow) spit of land") is a fortress complex built by the Ottomans in the 16th century to secure the mouth of the Dnieper, on a spit of the Kinburn Peninsula in the south of present-day Ukraine.
Together with the fortress of Ochakiv on the opposite bank of the Kinburn Strait, the mouth of the Dnieper-Bug estuary into the Black Sea, it controlled shipping traffic and trade to Ukraine.
Machine-translated from “Kinburn” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kinburn ranks #1,365 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #25 of the 188 mapped in Ukraine. Founded c. 1650, it is older than 26% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 626 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 7,451 times in the last 60 days, more than 90% of the atlas. See how Ukraine compares in the castle statistics.
View on the interactive castle map →Frequently asked questions
Where is Kinburn?
Kinburn stands in Ukraine, at 46.56111°, 31.52417°.
When was Kinburn built?
The atlas dates its founding to c. 1650. Earlier structures may have stood on the site; this is the earliest documented founding year.
How famous is Kinburn?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #1,365 of 8,133 worldwide, and #25 in Ukraine. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Kinburn?
Vorontsov Palace (Odesa), about 61 km away.
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