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Example sentences for: fortress

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Albuquerque built a fortress, which he named A Famosa (“The Famous”), and St. Paul’s church on the site of the sultan’s palace.
Equally hard to believe, this inland town was once a port and coastal fortress until the sea inlet here silted up, leaving the quiet Óbidos lagoon cut off and the shoreline nearly 10 km (6 miles) away.
Fort Warren, a 19th-century star-shaped fortress in which Confederate prisoners were incarcerated during the Civil War occupies most of the island.
Inside the walls of the old fortress is a luxurious pousada.
The city center lies within the walls of a vast fortress started by the Venetians and reinforced by the Turks.