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List of the strongholds or dar al-hijra of the Order of Assassins in Persia (Iran) and Syria. Most of the Persian Ismaili castles were in the Alborz mountains, in the regions of Daylaman (particularly, in Alamut and Rudbar; north of modern-day Qazvin ) and Quhistan (south of Khurasan ), as well as in Qumis .
Into this category are included all strongholds from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium See also: Category:Middle-earth populated places and Category:Middle-earth realms Pages in category "Middle-earth castles and fortresses"
The Templars briefly owned the entire island of Cyprus in 1191–1192, preceding the establishment of the Kingdom of Cyprus; Gastria Castle, 1210–1279 [5]; Kolossi Castle, 1306–1313 [2]
These forts served as military strongholds, administrative centers, and symbols of authority. The Marathas developed a complex fortification system between the 17th and 19th centuries. There are nearly 400 of these forts in Maharashtra today.
Bacon's Castle, 2014, in Surry County, Virginia Beacon Towers in Sands Point, New York Belvedere Castle, a folly in Central Park in Manhattan, New York City Berkeley Castle in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia Bettendorf Castle in Fox River Grove, Illinois Biltmore in Asheville, North Carolina Boldt Castle on Heart Island, Thousand Islands, New York The Camelback Castle/Copenhaver Castle in ...
[citation needed] During the American occupation, rebels built strongholds and the datus, rajahs, or sultans often built and reinforced their kotas in a desperate bid to maintain rule over their subjects and their land. [32] Many of these forts were also destroyed by American expeditions, as a result, very very few kotas still stand to this day.
This is a list of castles in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, founded or occupied during the Crusades. For crusader castles in Poland and the Baltic states , see Ordensburg . Sidon's Sea Castle built by the crusaders as a fortress of the Holy Land in Sidon , Lebanon .
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