Ukraine · 17th century
The Poltava Fortress (Ukrainian Полтавська фортеця) is a complex of fortifications in Poltava that existed in the 17th–18th centuries.
Machine-translated from “Полтавская крепость” on the Russian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Poltava Fortress ranks #8,329 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #136 of the 195 mapped in Ukraine. Founded 1608, it is older than 30% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 721 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. See how Ukraine compares in the castle statistics.
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