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Monkstown Castle is an area called Monkstown in south Dublin, Ireland.
map coordinates 53.288923, -6.150596
Monkstown Castle, which was probably built in the 12th or 13th centuries, was erected by the monks of the abbey of the Virgin Mary. Today a ruined fragment is all that remains, one tower and some adjoining walls.

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Funai Castle is a 16th century castle, located in Oita, Oita Prefecture, Japan.
map coordinates 33.24013, 131.611417
It was built by Otomo Sorin in 1562, who owned much of the surrounding Ky?sh? island.

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Namhansanseong is a Castle ruin and fortification at an elevation of 480m above sea level, immediately to the southeast of Seoul, Korea.
map coordinates 37.472664, 127.182078
Tradition connects the site of Namhansanseong with Onjo, founder of Baekje. In 672, a fortress called Jujangseong was built on the western edge of Namhansan to protect Silla from Tang China.

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Namhansanseong is a Castle ruin and fortification at an elevation of 480m above sea level, immediately to the southeast of Seoul, Korea.
map coordinates 37.472664, 127.182078
Tradition connects the site of Namhansanseong with Onjo, founder of Baekje. In 672, a fortress called Jujangseong was built on the western edge of Namhansan to protect Silla from Tang China.

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Turaida Castle is a partially reconstructed medieval castle in Turaida, in the Vidzeme region of Latvia.
map coordinates 57.182222, 24.850278
The castle was constructed in the Brick Gothic style in 1214 under Albert, archbishop of Riga, on the site of the destroyed wooden castle of the Livonian leader Caupo of Turaida.

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Pettingen Castle is located in the village of Pettingen some 4 km north of Mersch in central Luxembourg.
map coordinates 49.770498, 6.107890
In the 10th century, the fortress was known as Pittigero Mazini but received the name of Pettingen in the 13th century.

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Kasteel Schaloen is located Oud-Valkenburg, the Netherlands.
map coordinates 50.856944, 5.850833
The rectangular castle is built of limestone and dates from the 14th century. The oldest record of the existence of Schaloen Castle dating from 1381 . An inscription in Latin tells that after the fire in 1575, the couple Hoen of Cartils and Johanna Maria van der Merwijck saved the building and restored it.

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Kasteel Genhoes is located north of the road to Valkenburg - Gulpen in the Geul valley near the Limburg village of Oud-Valkenburg, the Netherlands.
map coordinates 50.855438, 5.856581
Historically, the castle was the ancestral castle of the lords of Valkenburg. The the original site was a castle first mentioned in 1041. In 1539 Jan van Strijthagen , guardian of Valkenburg, rebuilt it into the structure we see today.

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Nowy Sacz Royal Castle is a medieval castle in the city of Nowy Sacz in Poland.
map coordinates 49.628477, 20.689065
The edifice was built by king Casimir the Great in 1350-1360 on a slope within the fortifications of Nowy S?cz, at the confluence of two rivers. The structure was separated from the city by a moat and a wall.

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Portalegre Castle is a Portuguese castle in Portalegre.
map coordinates 39.2912, -7.4308
The earliest historical references date from the reign of Dom Afonso III of Portugal, the king who conceded the first charter to Portalegre in 1259, which gave it the status of vila (town) and made it the capital of a new autonomous municipality. As in other cases, there was likely already a fortification there and thus the reason for the charter.  It served chiefly as a defence of the frontier zone in front of Castile.

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Toldy is a ruined medieval castle in Sannicolau Roman, located in Bihor County, Romania.
map coordinates 46.960586, 21.712660
Built by the noble family of Toldy, it dates from the second half of the fifteenth century. A more modern mansion sits inside the walls of the castle.

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Markovo Kale is a medieval historical castle and monument, located 4.5 km north of Vranje, Serbia.
map coordinates 42.581424, 21.888244
Built at some unknown date; it was used by Prince Marko in the 14th century.

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The Castle of Park is a 16th-century L-plan tower house near Glenluce, in Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland.
map coordinates 54.875972, -4.825551
The castle was begun in 1590 for Thomas Hay, the son of one of the Commendators of Glenluce Abbey, and his wife Jonet MakDouel. It was completed by 1599.

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The Castle of Park, also known as Corncarn Manor, is located just south of Cornhill, Scotland.
map coordinates 57.602388, -2.689477
Originally built in 1292, the castle was much modified and added on to in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

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Chateau de Fougeret is located north of Queaux, France.
map coordinates 46.338800, 0.674502
The castle first appears in records in 1337 as Fougerac Helias. By 1416 the castle is referred to as Fougere Chastel.