Castle Khust

The Khust Castle (Ukrainian: Хустський замок, romanized: Khusts'kyj zamok; Hungarian: Huszti vár) is an abandoned castle located in the city of Khust in Zakarpattia Oblast (province) in western Ukraine.

The former Hungarian castle lies on a 150-meter high mountain near the center of the city. It is widely believed that the construction of the castle had started around 1090, during the reign of the Hungarian King St. Ladislaus I, and had finished in 1191, under Béla III. However, the first written mention of the castle dates back to 1353, and a 2019 archaeological expedition dated the oldest findings to late 15th century.

The castle was built as a fortress to protect the salt road from Solotvyno, including the Khust Gate, and the border areas.

Texto adaptado de «Khust Castle» en la Wikipedia en inglés, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Castle Khust ranks #2554 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #28 of the 120 mapped in Ucrania. Fundado en 1353, más antiguo que el 61% de los monumentos datados del atlas — one of 346 atlas entries founded in the siglo XIV. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.

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