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    The Dutch Fortress Museum (Nederlands Vestingmuseum) is located in the city of Naarden, the Netherlands. The museum was established by volunteers in 1955...
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    Museum (Indonesian: Museum Benteng Vredeburg; Javanese: ꦩꦸꦱꦶꦪꦸꦩ꧀ꦧꦺꦠꦺꦁꦮ꦳ꦽꦢꦼꦧꦸꦂꦒ꧀, romanized: Musiyum Bètèng Vredeburg) was a former colonial fortress located...
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    Naarden (category CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl))
    region in the southeast of the province of North Holland. Naarden is the home of the Dutch Fortress Museum (Nederlands Vestingmuseum). Naarden hosts the...
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  • Museum Dutch Fortress Museum Dutch Navy Museum Freedom Museum Marechaussee Museum Militaire Luchtvaart Museum Nationaal Militair Museum Netherlands Marine...
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    A Famosa (redirect from Fortress of Malacca)
    gave its name to the fortress as a whole. Some time following the Battle of Malacca (1641) and the occupation of the city by the Dutch, the keep was destroyed...
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    Bohus Fortress lies in Kungälv, Bohuslän, Sweden, north east from Hisingen where the Göta river splits into two branches (20 km (12 mi) north of Gothenburg)...
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    Fort Aguada (redirect from Aguada Fortress)
    wall of Aguada Fortress (Lower) Fortification wall of Aguada Fortress (Lower) Aguada Fortress (Upper) Aguada Fortress (Upper) Aguada Fortress (Upper) Aguada...
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    Utrecht (redirect from Utrecht (Dutch city))
    Utrecht fortress was simply Traiectum, denoting its location at a possible Rhine crossing. Traiectum became Dutch Trecht; with the U from Old Dutch "uut"...
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    Fort Bourtange (category Military and war museums in the Netherlands)
    Bourtange The former synagogue (now a museum) pike drill and musket firing cannon loading and firing Fortress of St. Elizabeth A Universal history pg...
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    Miguel or Saint Michael Fortress was a Portuguese fortress built in 1576 in the Ingombota District of Luanda, Angola. During Dutch rule in Angola between...
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    The area west of the New Hollandic Water Line was called Fortress Holland (Dutch: Vesting Holland; German: Festung Holland), the eastern flank of which...
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    Dęblin Fortress refers to the 19th century fortifications in the town of Dęblin, Poland. Part of the fortress is used as a museum and the area is owned...
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    Bourtange (category Articles with Dutch-language sources (nl))
    2024-03-19. "Bourtange Fortress | Northeastern Netherlands, The Netherlands | Attractions". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 2024-03-19. (in Dutch) "Bourtange (gemeente...
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    Henri Winkelman (category Dutch members of the Dutch Reformed Church)
    he decided to keep things simple: the Dutch would only defend "Fortress Holland" (the North Holland, South Holland and Utrecht provinces, roughly the area...
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    Fort Santo Domingo (category Military and war museums in Taiwan)
    Fort Santo Domingo is a historical fortress in Tamsui District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. It was originally a wooden fort built in 1628 by the Manila-based...
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    Castle of Good Hope (category CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl))
    "The fortress is very attractive. The dwellings consist of houses mostly covered in thatch, but so clean and so white that you know they are Dutch. There...
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    Het Steen (category Museums in Antwerp)
    The Dutch word "steen" means "stone", and used to be used for "fortress" or "palace", as in the "Gravensteen" in Ghent, Belgium. The fortress made it...
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    1612–1957. Bermuda: The Bermuda Maritime Museum Press. ISBN 9780921560111. Holland, James (1 September 2003). Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-1943...
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    Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg (category Peter and Paul Fortress)
    sobor) is a Russian Orthodox cathedral located inside the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia. It is the first and oldest landmark in St. Petersburg...
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    restore parts of the fortress. The Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic site is operated by Parks Canada as a living history museum. The site stands as...
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  • ethnographic museum Village Museum, Chișinău Dutch Open Air Museum - Arnhem, Gelderland Archeon - Alphen aan den Rijn, South Holland De Spitkeet - Harkema,...
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    Holland lives in Wiltshire with his wife and two children. Holland, James (2003). Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940–43. London: Orion. ISBN 978-0752852881...
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    (Portuguese for Mount Fortress, also Monte Forte; officially Fortaleza de Nossa Senhora do Monte de São Paulo, in English: Fortress of Our Lady of the Mount...
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    The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (Dutch: Nederlands(ch)-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda), was a Dutch colony with territory...
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    star fort in the Japanese city of Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido. The fortress was completed in 1866. It was the main headquarters of the short-lived...
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    Frederick William stayed several times at the fortress, and two of his children were born there. During the Franco-Dutch War the Sparrenburg successfully resisted...
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    Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan) (category 1624 establishments in Dutch Formosa)
    Chéng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ji̍at-lân-jia Siâⁿ) was a fortress built over ten years from 1624 to 1634 by the Dutch East India Company (VOC), in the town of Anping...
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    Nagapattinam in September 1693. The Dutch then made the defenses of the fortress impregnable, which they came to regret when the Dutch government returned it to...
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    Fort Zeelandia (Paramaribo) (category CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl))
    Fort Zeelandia is a fortress in Paramaribo, Suriname. In 1640 the French built a wooden fort on the spot which, during British colonial period, was reinforced...
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    Srebrnogórska Fortress (Polish: Twierdza Srebrna Góra, lit. Silver Mountain Fort) is a former military fort, now a monument and a museum, located in the...
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