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Smbataberd Castle is located upon the crest of a hill between the villages of Artabuynk and Yeghegis in Armenia.
Map coordinates 39.871902, 45.337958
It is likely that Smbataberd was founded during the 5th c., but was better established and heavily fortified during the 9th to 10th centuries.

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Burg Groppenstein is a castle in Carinthia, Austria.
Map coordinates 46.941667, 13.1825
The castle was first mentioned in 1254 as Groppenstein "turris Cropensteine.

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Lida Castle was one of several citadels erected by Grand Duke Gediminas of Lithuania in the early 14th century.
The modern town of Lida, Belarus grew up around this castle.
Map coordinates 53.887073, 25.30272
The site selected for the castle is naturally defended by the Kamenka and Lida rivers to east and west. Construction of boulder walls was carried out in 1323, 1324, and 1325. Later they were faced with red brick.

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Kasteel Wissekerke is situated in the village of Bazel of Kruibeke municipality in the East Flanders province of Belgium.
Map coordinates 51.145397, 4.301793
Although a castle stood at this site since 10th century, the present castle was largely built in the 15th century with lake, park and a wrought iron suspension bridge.

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Ludgershall is a castle in a town and civil parish of the same name north east of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
Map coordinates 51.259904, -1.623137
The entry in the Domesday Book (1066) reads as follows: "Edward of Salisbury holds Ludgershall. Alfward held it before 1066; it paid tax for one hide (about 24 acres). Land for 3 ploughs. In Lordship 2 ploughs 3 slaves; 8 Cottagers with 1 plough. Pasture 3 furlongs long and 1 furlong wide; woodland 1/2 league long and 2 furlongs wide. The value was 100s. In 1141 the Empress Maud took refuge in Ludgershall castle as she fled from Stephen's army.

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(Honour Castle) is a Castle overlooking the city of Plaue in Thuringia, Germany.
Map coordinates 50.779268, 10.895742
The castle was constructed in 1324 by the Grafen von Schwarzburg.

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Ostrozac Castle is a castle located in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Una-Sana Canton just outside of the town of Cazin, near the village of Ostrozac.
Map coordinates 44.904, 15.937
The castle dates back to the early 1500s when the Ottoman Turks established the Ottoman province of Bosnia.

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The castle of Cherven was one of the Second Bulgarian Empire's primary military, administrative, economic and cultural centres between the 12th and the 14th century. The ruins of the fortress are located near the village of the same name 30–35 km south of Rousse, northeastern Bulgaria.
map coordinates 43.620731, 26.017642
The stronghold was a successor to an earlier Byzantine fortress of the 6th century, but the area has been inhabited since the arrival of the Thracians.

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Cambi Castle is castle in Kastel Kambelovac, a town in Dalmatia, Croatia.
Map coordinates 43.549211, 16.384615
Cambi Castle was built by the aristo-cratic family Cambi from Split. In 1517 brothers Jerolim and Nikola Cambi, built a castle on an islet. The citadel was surrounded by the sea but was later connected with the mainland by filling up and levelling.

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Kokorín Castle is a castle located some 10 km (6 mi) northeast of Melnik, Czech Republic.
Map coordinates 50.440278, 14.576667
It was built in the first half of the 14th century by order of Hynek Berka z Dubé.

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Hvedholm Castle near Faaborg on the island of Funen in Denmark was built in the early 15th century, first mentioned in 1425.
Map coordinates 55.105269, 10.191689
The main building was rebuilt in 1681 after a fire and rebuilt in 1878 - 1882 by the architect Johan Schrøder.

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El Tina castle is in North Sinai, Egypt.
Since this is still a protected archeological dig, its exact location is not publically disseminated.
The castle belonged to Sultan Qounsoa Al Ghouri in El Tina Plain, Northern Sinai, dating back to the reign of ' Mamluks' .
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Paide castle is in a town of the same name in Estonia.
Map coordinates 58.889381, 25.572029
This castle was built by the Livonian Brothers of the Sword. The town was formally founded 30 September 1291 by Halt, master of the Livonian Order.

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Kastelholm Castle is a medieval castle in Sund, Aland, Finland.
Map coordinates 60.233056, 20.080556
The castle was built on a small island that was surrounded by water and moats filled with several lines of poles, first mentioned in 1388.

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Château d'Hardelot is a castle , located on the common Condette in the Pas-de-Calais , in France.
map coordinates 50.645669,  1.611483
The current building is mostly a careful restoration done in the 20th century on the foundations from 1222.







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