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Château de Thy-le-Château is a medieval castle located in Namur, Belgium.
Map coordinates 50.281992, 4.426149
This Twelfth Century castle is the easterly neighbor of Château de Trazegnies. Thy-Le-Chateau itself has vestiges of its Roman origin all around the medieval castle.

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Vrnograc Castle is a castle in a town of the same name in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Map coordinates 45.162, 15.954
This Xth-XIth century fortress is in badly deteriorating condition. The Government Commision to preserve National Monuments has moved Stari Grad Vrnograc near the top of its list for preservation.

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Baba Vida is a medieval fortress in Vidin in northwestern Bulgaria.
Map coordinates 43.993056, 22.886667
The construction of the fortress began in the 10th century at the place of an Ancient Roman watchtower.

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Cippico Castle is a castle in Kaštel Novi, a town within the administrative area of Kaštela in Dalmatia, Croatia.
Map coordinates 43.547432, 16.33899
In 1512, Pavao Antun Cippico, a nobleman from Trogir, built a fortified summer residence with inclined ground-floor walls and an adjoining fortified village for his labourers.
I apologize that I couldn't find better photos, only distance shots. On Google Earth some of the building is now roofless.

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Erdut Castle is a castle in Erdut, Croatia.
map coordinates 45.526703, 19.06418
Built in the 14th century, Erdut Castle lies on a bluff 70 meters above the Danube.

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Chvateruby is a castle in a village of the same name in M?lník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.
Map coordinates 50.232618, 14.341924
In the 15th century the nobleman Zajic Hasenberg rebuilt a ruined fortress on the site of a 12th century castle. The original castle was surrounded by a moat.

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The ruins of Vordingborg Castle are located in the town of Vordingborg, Denmark.
map coordinates 55.007222, 11.9125
The castle was built in 1175 by King Valdemar I (Valdemar the Great) as a defensive castle and as a base from which to launch raids against the German coast.

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Today I have a good one for you. Not only is it haunted but it hosts Medieval and Renaissance Faires.
Voergard Castle was built before 1520 by Bad Krumpen the powerful bishop of Borglum.
Map coordinates 57.242460, 10.334750
The Bishop preferred the milder climate here, rather than the windswept Børglum Abbey, and lived here with his beautiful aristocratic "vedsoverske" Elisabeth Guildenstern. In 1534 the castle was captured and burned. The legend says that the bishop and his mistress escaped by hiding in a large oven in the kitchen.

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Poltsamaa Castle is in a town of the same name in Jogeva County, Estonia.
Map coordinates 58.654649, 25.967473
Originally built in 1272, part of the moated castle ruins have been converted to a church.

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Toolse Castle aka as Tolsburg, is in the village of Toolse in northeastern Estonia.
Map coordinates 59.534810, 26.468864
This castle was built in 1471 for the Livonian Order by Meister Johann von Wolthus Herset.

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Oulu Castle was a late defence castle in Oulu, Finland.
Map coordinates 65.017222, 25.467222
The current castle was built in 1590 on the site of an earlier castles was invaded by the Swedes in 1377.







Artist's rendering of how the original castle probably looked.

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Bourn Castle was in the village of Bourn in Cambridgeshire.
map coordinates 52.18821, -0.06757
It originally consisted of wooden buildings on an earthwork enclosure which was erected in Norman times towards the end of the reign of William the Conqueror. This was burnt down during the reign of Henry III. In the early 16th century Bourn Hall was built on part of the site.
The aerial view still shows traces of the circumference of the castles grounds, though no motte remains.

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Château d'Aguilar is a 12th century Cathar castle located in the commune of Tuchan in the Aude département of France.
Map coordinates 42.890556, 2.746944
The earliest building at this location belonged to the count of Fonnollède since 1021. In the 13th century, the keep that had replaced earlier buildings was bequeathed by the viscounts of Carcassonne to their vassal, the Ternes.

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Château d'Angoulême was a castle in the town of Angoulême, in the Charente département of France.
map coordinates 45.648333, 0.156111
The only remaining parts are the keep of Lusignan and the tower of Valois, which are part of the Town Hall of Angoulême. The first fortress on this site was built at the end of the Roman Empire. A rampart protecting a 27 hectare area had been maintained until the 13th century. The medieval castle was founded in around 886 by Count Alduin.

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Burg Altensteinais n old stone ruin in Altenstein in the county Haßberge in Lower Franconia, Germany.
map coordinates 50.171517, 10.734125
The castle was built by the Lords von Stein zu Altenstein. Estimated to have been built between 1200 and 1225, the castle figures prominently in church records from 1231 onwards.