Belarus · 11th century
Kobryn Castle ranks #6,211 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #33 of the 44 mapped in Belarus. Founded c. 1050, it is older than 89% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 439 atlas entries founded in the 11th century. The nearest day-trip guide is Brest (Belarus), 50 km away. See how Belarus compares in the castle statistics.
Kobryn castles were a complex of wooden defense and administrative structures that existed in the city of Kobryn in the 16th–18th centuries. Presumably, the first Kobryn castle (detinets) was founded in the 11th century by the heirs of the Kiev prince Izyaslav on the island at the confluence of the Kobrinka and Mukhavets rivers. The remaining earth embankments were dismantled in the 1880s when laying the Moscow–Warsaw chaussee.
Text adapted from “Kobryn castles” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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