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Fort Christian is a Dano-Norwegian-built fort in Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.Built 1672-1680, early in the first successful colonial establishment on the island, the fort served as a critical point of defense and government during the entire period of Dano-Norwegian, and later Danish, administration, which ended in 1917 with the sale of the islands to the United States.
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fort Christian, U.S. Virgin Islands 18°20′27″N 64°55′47″W / 18.34083°N 64.92972°W / 18.34083; -64 This Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands location article is a stub .
The Danish West India Company chartered Charlotte Amalie in 1671 after King Christian V decided to secure them for plantations. As early as in 1672, the Danish government began the construction of Fort Christian on Saint Thomas Harbor in Charlotte Amalie. In 1675, the Danes constructed four pubs near the water's edge on the western side of the ...
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Stuyvesant took no direct action against the Swedes, but ordered Fort Nassau dismantled and a new fort constructed on the west side of the river a few miles south of Fort Christina. [2] Upon his arrival in New Sweden in May 1654, newly appointed Governor Johan Risingh, seized Fort Casimir from the Dutch and renamed it Fort Trefaldighet (Trinity ...
Butrint (Greek: Βουθρωτόν and Βουθρωτός [2], romanized: Bouthrōtón, Latin: Buthrōtum, Albanian: Butrint) was an ancient Greek polis and later Roman city and the seat of an early Christian bishopric in Epirus.
The Albanian Wikipedia (Albanian: Wikipedia Shqip) is the Albanian language edition of Wikipedia started on 12 October 2003. As of 25 December 2024, the Wikipedia has 101,089 articles and is the 73rd-largest Wikipedia.