Iran · 12th century
Qal'eh Dokhtar is a historical castle dating from the 6th to the 9th century AH, located in Bardaskan County, 7 kilometres north-west of the village of Doruneh. This castle was registered on 15 November 2006 with registration number 16334 as one of the national heritage sites of Iran.
Machine-translated from “قلعة دختر (درونة)” on the Arabic Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Qal'eh Dokhtar, Doruneh ranks #8,888 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #161 of the 173 mapped in Iran. Founded c. 1150, it is older than 80% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 756 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. See how Iran compares in the castle statistics.
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