Prezë Fortress

The Prezë Castle (Albanian: Kalaja e Prezës) is a medieval castle in Prezë, Albania. The mosque inside the castle, built in the 1500s, is one of the oldest mosques in Albania.

Preza Castle was built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian the Great in the 550s.

The castle overlooks the village with the same name and is located on a hilltop. The castle was enlarged by a construction which started in the 14th century and was completed in the early 15th century and belonged to the Thopias, a local Albanian feudal family. During 1443-1468 it was one of the core strongholds of the Albanian resistance against the Ottoman Empire led by Skanderbeg.

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Prezë Fortress ranks #2925 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #16 of the 22 mapped in Albania. Fundado en ca. 555, más antiguo que el 98% de los monumentos datados del atlas — uno de los 19 monumentos del atlas fundados en el siglo VI. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.

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