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  2. Goryōkaku - Wikipedia

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    The fortress was completed in 1866, two years before the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate. It is shaped like a five-pointed star. It is shaped like a five-pointed star. This allowed for greater numbers of gun emplacements on its walls than a traditional Japanese fortress, and reduced the number of blind spots where a cannon could not fire.

  3. Tatsuoka Castle - Wikipedia

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    It was the primary fortress of Tatsuoka Domain, ruled by the Ogyū-Matsudaira clan. Along with the Goryōkaku in Hakodate , Hokkaidō , it is one of only two star fortresses in Japan, and has been the castle ruins have been designated as a National Historic Site since 1934.

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    Wikia then began to assimilate independent fan wikis, such as Memory Alpha (a Star Trek fan wiki) and Wowpedia (a World of Warcraft fan wiki). [7] In the late 2010s—after Fandom and Gamepedia were acquired and consolidated by the private equity firm TPG Inc.—several wikis began to leave the service, including the RuneScape, Zelda, and ...

  5. Battle of Hakodate - Wikipedia

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    They progressively took over various defensive positions, until the final stand occurred around the fortress of Goryōkaku and Benten Daiba around the city of Hakodate. Japan's first major naval engagement between two modern navies, the Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay , occurred towards the end of the conflict, during the month of May 1869.

  6. Goryōkaku Station - Wikipedia

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    Goryōkaku Station (五稜郭駅, Goryōkaku-eki) is a railway station on the Hakodate Main Line and South Hokkaido Railway Line in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, operated by Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido) and South Hokkaido Railway Company.

  7. Category:Star forts - Wikipedia

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  8. Star fortress - Wikipedia

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  9. List of bastion forts - Wikipedia

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    Petrovaradin Fortress in Novi Sad, Serbia Pančevo Fortress in Pančevo, 18th century. Belgrade Fortress, Belgrade, partially razed after the Berlin Congress of 1878 and the end of the Military Frontier. Restored several times afterwards and areas repurposed. Fetislam, Kladovo, Turkish bastion fort until 1867. Restored several times afterwards.