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Budatín Castle is a castle in north-western Slovakia.
map coordinates 49.236389, 18.733889
Budatín was built as a guarding castle in the second half of the 13th century near the confluence of the Kysuca and the Váh, where tolls were collected.

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Château de Lichtenberg overlooks the village of the same name in the Alsace region of France.
map coordinates 48.921111, 7.487222
The castle was built in the 13th century by the Hanau-Lichtenberg family.

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Castillo de Boltaña, sometimes written as Boltanya in the local dialect, is located above Boltaña, Spain.
map coordinates 42.449314, 0.068540
The Castle was built by the Saracens in Sobrarbe to defend Ara Valley sometime about the tenth century.

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Fedderate Castle lies in Northwestern Scotland.
map coordinates 57.538597, -2.173897
A stone, removed from the castle c. 1830, now at Alehousehill, was dated 1257, thought to be the date of building. Little remains now except some walls, though it was still a fortress in 1690 and saw action.

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Castillo de Albarrazín ,also spelled Albarracin, is built on a rock overlooking the town of Albarrazín, Spain.
map coordinates 40.408910, -1.445880
Originally fortified by the Arabs in the tenth century, the ruins of the castle there now and its long curtain walls date from the thirteenth century.

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Huntly Castle is a ruined castle in Huntly in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
map coordinates 57.45488, -2.78117
A mound in the grounds of the castle is all that remains of an earlier 12th century motte. Originally named Strathbogie, the castle was granted to Sir Adam Gordon of Huntly in the 14th century. King Robert the Bruce was a guest of the castle in 1307 prior to his defeat of the Earl of Buchan.

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Schloss Rapperswil is a castle in the city of Rapperswil, Switzerland.
map coordinates 47.227337, 8.815509
Rapperswil Castle dates back around 1220 and is first mentioned in 1229. The castle was built by Count Rudolf II and his son Rudolf III of Rapperswil.

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Burg Birseck is located in the Swiss town of Arlesheim.
map coordinates 47.491944, 7.628611
The origins of castles probably go to the Earl of Frohburg back after the mid-12th Century expansion into the southern Sisgau.  in the oldest preserved stone masonry discovered, there were clear traces of fire are detected. These give rise to the suspicion that there had been a previous building, which was then replaced in the construction of 1243/44 but with the reuse of usable materials. Possibly this was even older than the associated Hermitage in the rocks under the castle.

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Burg Reichenstein is the second castle in Arlesheim, Switzerland.
map coordinates 47.49677, 7.628978
Reichenstein first appears in documents in 1239, but was likely built at least forty to fifty years previous to that by the Counts of Frohburg.

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Angso Castle ( older spelling Engso) is a castle in Angso parish in Sweden.
map coordinates 59.5325, 16.8575
The castle was owned 1272 by Riseberga monastery. The Medieval Angso castle wasbuilt by the Privy Council Bengt Father's son in the 1480's. At one time the castle was moated. One of the ghosts of the castle is said to be the hunchbacked court jester Anders Luxembourg. He was one of the last who saw Charles XII in life.

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Qasr al-Heer al-Gharbi castle is located 80 km to south-west of Palmyra, Syria.
map coordinates 34.374444, 37.605833
The castle is a twin with Qasr al-Heer al-Sharqi; built by the Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik in 727 CE.

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Huszti Castle is located on a hill in modern Khust, Ukraine.
map coordinates 48.167964, 23.30146
The castle was built sometime between 1090 and 1191 though records are scant due to the escalating Mongol invasion at the time.

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Neath Castle is located in the town centre of Neath, Wales.
map coordinates 51.6651, -3.8037
The first castle was a ringwork known to have been built here in the 12th century by Robert, earl of Gloucester.

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Penrice Castle is a castle near Penrice on the Gower Peninsula in south Wales.
map coordinates 51.5752, -4.1703
Penrice Castle is the 13th-century successor to a strong ringwork to the southeast, known as the Mountybank. It was built by the de Penrice family who were originally given land at Penrice for their part in the Norman conquest of Gower.

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Lezhe Castle is a castle dominating the city of Lezhe, northern Albania.
map coordinates 41.783719, 19.649770
The castle originates from Illyrian times. In 1440 it was reconstructed by the Venetians, and in 1522, after the Ottoman conquest, it was also rebuilt by the latter.