Uster, Switzerland
c. 1200
Laholm, Sweden
13th century
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12th century
Uppsala, Sweden
ca. 1450
Visingsö, Sweden
mid-1100s
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15th century
Österskär, Sweden
13th century
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c. 1300
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1470-1480
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15th century
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15th century
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ca. 1450
Lomma, Sweden
1100s
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13th century
Stäket, Sweden
1440s
Eslöv, Sweden
15th century
Svedala, Sweden
14th century
Brunflo, Sweden
1170s
Huskvarna, Sweden
c. 1360
Norrtälje, Sweden
1387
Goryōkaku (五稜郭) (literally, 'five-point fort') is a star fort in the Japanese city of Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido. The fortress was completed in 1866. It was the main fortress of the short-lived Republic of Ezo.
Goryōkaku was designed in 1855 by Takeda Ayasaburō and Jules Brunet. Their plans was based on the work of the French architect Vauban. The fortress was completed in 1866, two years before the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate. It is shaped like a five-pointed star. This allowed for greater numbers of gun emplacements on its walls than a traditional Japanese fortress, and reduced the number of blind spots where a cannon could not fire.
The fort was built by the Tokugawa shogunate to protect the Tsugaru Strait against a possible invasion by the Meiji government.
Goryōkaku is famous as the site of the last battle of the Boshin War.