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List of castles by country. 1 language. ... The list of castles is a link page for any castle in the sense of a fortified building. Afghanistan Albania ...
Castles by former country (2 C) + Castles in British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies (5 C, 1 P) A. Castles in Albania (1 C, 44 P) Castles in Algeria (3 P)
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100 Mile House, British Columbia: named for being the location of a roadhouse at the 100 mile mark up the Old Cariboo Road during the Cariboo Gold Rush; Chafford Hundred, England, a 21st-century built settlement named for the historic Hundred of Chafford
Name Image Location Type Date Notes Appenzell Castle: Appenzell: Manor house: 1563: Original owner Antoni Löw executed 1584. 1584-1682 used as Franciscan monastery. Today known as "Doctor's House" and privately owned.
Helfštýn (German: Helfenstein, Helfstein) is a castle ruin in Týn nad Bečvou in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It is located 15 kilometres (9 mi) east of Přerov . The history of Helfštýn is closely related to the development of the nearby town of Lipník nad Bečvou .
Dating back to the early 12th century, the Alcázar of Segovia is one of the most distinctive medieval castles in Europe. Disney was inspired by this site in building Cinderella's castle.
Castile or Castille (/ k æ ˈ s t iː l /; Spanish: Castilla ⓘ) is a territory of imprecise limits located in Spain. [1] The use of the concept of Castile relies on the assimilation (via a metonymy) of a 19th-century determinist geographical notion, that of Castile as Spain's centro mesetario ("tableland core", connected to the Meseta Central) with a long-gone historical entity of ...