Fortress
Siyu East Fort
🇹🇼 Taiwan · 19th century
The Xiyu Eastern Fort (traditional Chinese: 西嶼東臺; simplified Chinese: 西屿东台; pinyin: Xīyǔ Dōngtái) or Xiyu Eastern Battery (西嶼東砲臺 Xīyǔ Dōng Pàotái, informally 東台古堡 Dōngtái Gǔbǎo) is a former fort and battery in Wai'an Village, Xiyu Township, Penghu, Taiwan.
Text adapted from “Xiyu Eastern Fort” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Siyu East Fort ranks #4,472 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #16 of the 22 mapped in Taiwan. Founded 1889, it is older than 5% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 336 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how Taiwan compares in the castle statistics.
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