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Sardar's Fortress

🇦🇲 Armenia · 19th century

Sardar's Fortress in Armenia
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Sardarabad (Armenian: Սարդարապատ, romanized: Sardarapat; Persian: سردارآباد, romanized: Sardâr-âbâd), also known as Sardari Berd (Armenian: Սարդարի բերդ, lit. 'Sardar's fortress'), was a 19th-century fortress and urban center built in the Erivan Khanate in Qajar Iran, in the territory of modern-day Armenia. Its ruins are located near the village of Nor Armavir in the Armavir Province of Armenia.

Text adapted from “Sardarabad (fortress)” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Sardar's Fortress ranks #4,016 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #18 of the 25 mapped in Armenia. Founded 1807, it is older than 14% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 336 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how Armenia compares in the castle statistics.

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