Iran · 19th century
Fort of the Marazigh, or Moghuyeh Castle, or the castle of Sheikh Sultan al-Marzouqi: the date of its original construction is unknown. Sheikh Sultan bin Ahmad bin Rashid al-Marzouqi ruled between the years (1348 _ 1370) AH, and it appears that the castle's construction date is much older than this. It is believed that the founder of the castle was (Sheikh Rashid bin Hussein bin Muhammad bin Salman al-Marzouqi), and Sheikh Sultan bin Ahmad completed the construction later. It is also said that "Sheikh Suleiman bin Muhammad bin Suleiman bin Muhammad al-Marzouqi", who ruled the country between the years (1245 _ 1280) AH, was the one who began building the castle.
Machine-translated from “حصن المرازيق” on the Arabic Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Moghuyeh Castle ranks #8,225 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #102 of the 173 mapped in Iran. Founded c. 1829, it is older than 10% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 717 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how Iran compares in the castle statistics.
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