Castle
The Qishla of Jeddah
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
The Qishla of Jeddah (Turkish: Cidde Redif Kışlası) is a historical edifice in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, built in 1525 to be a military castle of the Ottoman army. Today, the ruins of the castle lay beneath the Jeddah branch of the ministry of defense.
Qishla (modern Turkish: Kışla) is a Turkish word meaning "barracks".
Text adapted from “Qishla of Jeddah” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Qishla of Jeddah ranks #4,163 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #13 of the 22 mapped in Saudi Arabia. See how Saudi Arabia compares in the castle statistics.
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