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Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
1750s
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
c. 1450
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
c. 1220
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
13th century
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
c. 1200
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
1440s
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1582
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3000 BC
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
14th century
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
1565
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
c. 1300
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
1508-1512
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
1753
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
8th century AD
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
3000 BC
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
1230-1231
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
13th century
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
1353
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
1207
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
15th century
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
1601-1609
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
c. 1580
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
13th century
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
c. 1500
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
13th century
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
1790
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
13th century
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
c. 1290
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
12th century
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
12th century
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
1820
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
13th century
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
700-1300 AD
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
16th century
Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
1800 BC
Ehrenbreitstein Fortress was built as the backbone of the regional fortification system, Festung Koblenz, by Prussia between 1817 and 1832 and guarded the middle Rhine region, an area that had been invaded by French troops repeatedly before. The fortress was never attacked.
Early fortifications at the site can be dated back to about 1000 BC. At about AD 1000 Ehrenbert erected a castle. The Archbishops of Trier expanded it with a supporting castle Burg Helferstein and guarded the Holy Tunic in it from 1657 to 1794. Successive Archbishops used the castle's strategic importance to barter between contending powers; thus in 1672 at the outset of war between France and Germany the Archbishop refused requests both from the envoys of Louis XIV and from Brandenburg's Ambassador, Christoph Caspar von Blumenthal, to permit the passage of troops across the Rhine.