List of castles in Africa

List of castles in Africa

This list of castles in Africa includes castles, forts, and mock castles in Africa.

Angola

*Fort Naulila, Cunene Province
*Fort Cuangar, Cunene Province

Egypt

* Buhen (c.1860 BCE)
* Cairo Citadel (12th century)
* Citadel of Qaitbay (15th century)

Ethiopia

* Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar (17th century)

Gambia

*Fort James (1651)
*Fort Jillifree, Jufureh

Ghana

* Fort Amsterdam, Abandze, Cormantin (1665-1721, 1785-1867)
* Fort Apollonia, Benyin (16..-16.., 1868-1871)
* Fort Saint Antony, Axim (February 1642-1664, 1665-71)
* Fort Batenstein, Butri (1656-1665, 1666-1871)
* Cape Coast Castle, Cape Coast (1688-1782, 16 April 1659-May 1659)
* Fort Crêvecoeur, Accra (1649-1782, 1785-1867/8)
* Fort Dorothea, Akwida (1687-1698, 1711-1712, 1732-1804)
* Elmina Castle, Elmina (1482)
* English Fort (Fort Vrendenburg), Komenda (1785-1871)
* Fort Good Hope (Fort Goedehoop), Senya Beraku (1667/1705-1782, 1785-1868)
* Fort Hollandia (1725-1815, previously Gross-Friedrichsburg, part of the former Brandenburger Gold Coast settlements), sold to the Dutch by Prussia
* Fort St. Jago (Fort Conraadsburg), Elmina
* Fort Metal Cross (Metaal Kruis), Dixcove (1868-1871)
* Fort Nassau, present Mouri (1598/1611-1664, 1665-1782, 1785-1867)
* Fort Oranje, Sekondi (1640-1871)
* Osu Castle (Fort Christiansborg), Osu, Accra
* Fort Patience (Fort Leydsaemhyt), Apam (1697-1782,1785-1868)
* Fort Prinzenstein, Keta
* Fort San Sebastian, Shema (1637-1664,1664-1871)

Kenya

* Fort Jesus, Mombasa, Kenya (1593-)

Libya

* El Tag, Kufra Oasis (mid-1930s)
* Fort Capuzzo

Mozambique

*Fort San Caetano, Sofala (1505)
*St. Sebastiao (1558-1608)

enegal

* Fort Nassau
* Fort Oranje

outh Africa

* Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape Province (1822-1837)
* Castle On the Cliff
* Fort Durnford, Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal (1847)
* Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town (1666)
* Greylingstad, Mpumalanga (c.1900)
* Fort Hare, Alice, Eastern Cape (19th century)
* Knoetzie Castles
* Castle Kyalami, Gauteng (1990s)
* Fort Mistake, Glencoe, KwaZulu-Natal
* Ohrigstad, Mpumalanga

Tanzania

*Ngome Kongwe (Old Fort), Stone Town, Zanzibar (c. 1700)

Zimbabwe

*Fort Victoria (Masvingo)
*Great Zimbabwe (11th-15th century)


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