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Qasr ibn Wardan is a 6th-century castle complex located in the Syrian desert, approx. 60 km northeast from Hama.
Map coordinates 35.373585, 37.247301
The complex of a palace, church and barracks was erected in the mid sixth century by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565) as a part of a defensive line (together with Rasafa and Halabiyya) against the Sassamid Persians. Its unique style, "imported" directly from Constantinople and not found anywhere else in present-day Syria, was probably chosen to impress local Beduin tribes.

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Lampron (Turkish: Namrun Kalesi) is a castle near the town of Çaml?yayla in Mersin Province, Turkey.
Map coordinates 37.185958, 34.629885
While part of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia in the Middle Ages, the castle was known as Lampron and was the ancestral home of the Armenian Hethumid princes.



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Akkerman is a castle situated on the right bank of the Dniester Liman in southwestern Ukraine.
Map coordinates 46.201316, 30.349926
The Byzantine fortress was first noted as Asperon, a name deriving from the local Turkic Pecheneg word for "white," after the appearance of the shoreline with its high content of white seashells. The word "white" as a basis for the name of the city has persisted ever since.

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Castle of San Juan de Ulúa is a large complex of fortresses, prisons and one former palace on an island overlooking the seaport of Veracruz, Mexico.
Map coordinates 19.209167, -96.131389
It was built in the Spanish colonial era, with construction starting in 1565. It was expanded several times later. In 1569, the Spanish Navy succeeded in trapping the English fleet of Sir John Hawkins, including the young Francis Drake, at San Juan de Ulúa. The English barely succeeded in making their escape, a humiliating experience which affected Drake's later career.

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Marlborough Castle, also known as, or recorded in historical documents as, The Mount[1], was an 11th century royal castle that was located in the civil parish of Marlborough, a market town in the English county of Wiltshire.
Map coordinates 51.416667, -1.737222
In 1067, William the Conqueror assumed control of the Marlborough area and set Roger, Bishop of Salisbury, to building a wooden Motte-and-bailey castle, sited on the pre-historic mound. This was completed in around 1100. Stone was later used to strengthen the castle, in around 1175. He then established the neighbouring Savernake Forest, as a favourite Royal hunting ground, and Marlborough Castle became a Royal residence. From 1273-1369 it was used only as dower house. It ceased to be used in 1370 and fell into disrepair, but remained Crown property.

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Harry Avery's Castle is situated half a mile south-west of Newtownstewart, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
Map coordinates 54.707547, -7.394181
On a hill, ruined Harry Avery's Castle, is a 14th century Gaelic stone castle - most unusual in Ulster. The castle consisted of a two-storey rectangular construction fronted by the massive D-shaped twin towers of the keep which remain. It was possibly built by Henry Aimbreidh O' Neil (Harry Avery O'Neill) (died 1392), and certainly named after him.

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Duntarvie Castle is a 16th century castle in West Lothian, Scotland.
Map coordinates 55.972656, -3.458780
The castle was possibly built for a James Durham, who gained the lands in 1588.
After undergoing restoration work for the last 18 years, the castle is apparently gone up for sale.

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Kanine Castle is a castle in the village Kanine near Vlore, in southwestern Albania.
Map coordinates 40.444429, 19.520091
The castle is believed to have been erected in the 3rd century B.C. In the 4th century B.C. the castle was transformed into a fortress town. In the 5th century A.D. the castle was reconstructed by Justinian I.

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Burg Alt Ems and Schloss Glopper are medieval castles in Hohenems in the province of Vorarlberg, Austria.
Map coordinates for Glopper (Neu Ems) 47.368108, 9.705577
Map coordinates for Alt Ems 47.363621, 9.696093
Approved by Emperor Louis IV the Bavarian, Ritter Ulrich I. von Ems (Knight Ulrich I of Ems) in 1343 built a new castle to have a comfortable home for his large family in dangerous times. He placed it near his fortress Alt-Ems on a hilltop.
Glopper



Alt Ems

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Pischalauski Castle, also spelled Pishchalauski Castle, is a castle in Minsk, Belarus.
Map coordinates 53.898889, 27.547778
The castle is also sometimes called the Belarusian Bastille. It was the site of the imprisonment of Belarusian writer Yakub Kolas from 1908 to 1911.

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Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
Birr Castle is a large castle in the town of Birr in County Offaly, Ireland. It is home of the seventh Earl of Rosse, and as such the residential areas of the castle are not open the public.
Map Coordinates 53.095319, -7.915542
There has been a castle on the site since 1170, and from the 14th to the 17th century the O'Carroll family ruled from here over an area known as "Ely O'Carroll".

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Chateau de Waroux is a castle located at street Waroux Alleur (municipality of Ans in the province of Liege, Belgium).
Map coordinates 50.682274, 5.492789
The name of Waroux evokes the terrible war and Awans Waroux which divided the nobility Hesbaye from 1298 to 1335.
It was during this period that the castle was built. The territory of Waroux, seigneurie dependant of the Comté de Looz to the thirteenth century, belonged to the family of Waroux before going through marriage in 1525 to Richard de Merode (+ 1539) who married Agnes Warfusée, lady Waroux. Their son was William, then his son John became Earl of Waroux in 1623.

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Chateau de Bioul is in the village of Bioul in Belgium.
Map coordinates 50.334378, 4.798565
The Lordship of Bioul is very old and was already known in the tenth century.
Local legends speak of the animosity that existed between the lord and Bioul Berlaymont Montaigle lords in the early twelfth century.
In 1434, the castle of Bioul resisted a violent attack by Dinant. Kept at a distance, he had to fall back on the village church and plundered it.

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Srebrenik Fortress is a fortress located near the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Map coordinates 44.101122, 19.302429
Srebrenik Fortress is Bosnia's best-preserved medieval castle dating from 1333. The castle was occupied by the Ban of Bosnia Stjepan Kotromanic until his death in 1353.

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Tsarevets Castle is a medieval stronghold located on a hill with the same name in Veliko Tarnovo in northern Bulgaria.
Map coordinates 43.083333, 25.652778
The extensively fortified hilltop served as the Second Bulgarian Empire's primary fortress and strongest bulwark from 1185 to 1393, housing the royal and the patriarchal palaces, and is a popular tourist attraction.