Fort Angké

Fort Anké was a fort located in North Jakarta, Indonesia. It was built by the Dutch East India Company in 1657 along the river of the same name, to the west of the city of Jakarta. Historical names for the fort include Anckee, Anke, and Ankee.

Three officers of the French corsair Le Modeste were held as prisoners at the fort for five months, when French naturalist J.-J. La Billardière visited them in November 1796. The same text says the fort was located an hour from Batavia.

A Dutch map from 1740 shows the fort at the intersection of the Mookervaart channel and Angke river.

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

Fort Angké ranks #4371 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #26 of the 36 mapped in Indonesia. Fundado en 1657, más antiguo que el 29% de los monumentos datados del atlas — uno de los 399 monumentos del atlas fundados en el siglo XVII. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.

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