Originally the site of a Roman fort, Gobannium, it became a medieval walled town within the Welsh Marches.

From the fort, the Bonnburg, as well as from a new medieval settlement to the South centred around what later became the minster, grew the medieval city of Bonn.

The Great Uprising of 1598 swept all Spanish presence south of the Bío-Bío River except Chiloé ( and Valdivia which was decades later reestablished as a fort ), and the great river became the frontier line between Mapuche lands and the Spanish realm.

Cacheu became one of the major slave centers, and a small fort still stands in the town.

Around this fort a town gradually developed, which became the centre of a small but important state of great strategic value to France, Germany and the Netherlands.

The Byzantine commander of the Bursa fort, called Evronos Bey, became a commander of a light cavalry force and even his sons and grandsons served Ottoman Empire in this capacity to conquer and hold many areas in Balkans.

Firstly, Berlin ’ s medieval fortifications, recently rebuilt from 1658-74 in the form of a Dutch-style star fort, on an enormous scale and at great expense ( and similar to examples still in extant today in the Netherlands like Naarden and Bourtange ), became virtually redundant overnight ; and secondly, the already crowded city became even more congested.

In the early hours of March 6, the Mexican army attacked the fort in what became known as the Battle of the Alamo.

The fur trader John Kinzie arrived in Chicago in 1804, and rapidly became the civilian leader of the small settlement that grew around the fort.

In 1837, the fort and its reserve, including part of the land that became Grant Park, was deeded to the city by the Federal Government.

The town was the site of a small Roman fort, Blestium, and became established after the Normans built a castle here after 1067.

The French, who had colonized the Saint Lawrence River valley to the north, and the English, who had taken over the Dutch settlements that became the Province of New York to the south, began contesting the area as early as 1691, when Pieter Schuyler built a small wooden fort at the Ticonderoga point on the western shore of the lake.

When the main defenses became ready for use, the fort was armed with cannons hauled from Montreal and Fort St. Frédéric.

When it became apparent in 1756 that the fort was too far to the west of the lake, the French constructed an additional redoubt to the east to enable cannon to cover the lake's narrows.

Following Burgoyne's defeat at Saratoga, the fort at Ticonderoga became increasingly irrelevant.

The fort quickly became the center of activity in the Pacific Northwest.

When emigration over the Oregon Trail began in earnest in about 1836, for many settlers the fort became the last stop on the Oregon Trail where they could get supplies, aid and help before starting their homestead.

The route from Nizhnekolymsk to the fort at Anadyrsk along the southwest of the main Chukchi area became a major trade route.

This Liberty Flag was seen as so important that it became the Flag of South Carolina, with the addition of the very palmetto tree that was used to make the fort so impenetrable.

In 1544 Henry VIII built the fort which became known as Southsea Castle.

There is evidence of Neolithic settlement on the hilltop of Old Sarum, which became a hill fort in the Iron Age.

It became a bishopric in the fourth century, and the hill fort of the Celtic Cavares was renamed for Saint Eutrope, the first bishop of Saintes.

She too touched the bowl and became stuck, a mist descended and the fort then disappeared.

The loss of the fort cost the English dearly because Fort Duquesne became one of the focal points of the French and Indian War.

Constructed on a territorial boundary in about 600 BC, the first hill fort at Maiden Castle was a area surrounded by a single ditch.

As the fort began to take shape, an issue soon to dominate the national scene was debated during the brief territorial legislative session which met at Pawnee in the present area of Camp Whitside, named for Col. Warren Whitside.

Between 1876 and 1883, Battleford was the territorial capital of the Northwest Territories ( now Alberta, Saskatchewan, Nunavut, northern Quebec, northern Ontario and the Northwest Territories ) and the NWMP fort ( Fort Battleford ) located there played an important role in the 1885 Northwest Rebellion.

He ordered the territorial Governor Arthur St. Clair-who had recommended such a fort to Knox in 1790-to attack Kekionga and maintain a presence in the area.

Aerial view of Mohamed Abdullah Hassan's main fort in Taleh, the capital of his Dervish State.

The capital of Rohan is the hill fort of Edoras which is located on a hill in a valley of the White Mountains.

The modern Kalisz was most probably founded in 9th century as a provincial capital castellany and a minor fort.

His name was commemorated in numerous place-names, such as Lugdunum ( Celtic * Lugdūnon or * Lugudūnon, " fort of Lugus "; modern Lyon, France ), capital of the Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis.

When the Emperor Augustus inaugurated Lugdunum (" fort of Lugus ", now Lyon ) as the capital of Roman Gaul in 18 BC, he did so with a ceremony on 1 August ( this may be purely coincidental, however ).

Cardiff Castle () is a medieval castle and Victorian architecture Gothic revival mansion, transformed from a Norman keep erected over a Roman fort in the Castle Quarter of Cardiff, the capital of Wales.

Geographic names that honor him include Lewis County, Idaho, Lewis County, Kentucky ; Lewis County, Tennessee ; Lewisburg, Tennessee ; Lewiston, Idaho ; Lewis County, Washington ; the U. S. Army fort Fort Lewis, Washington, the home of the US Army 1st Corps ( I Corps ), and especially Lewis and Clark County, Montana, the home of the capital city, Helena ; Lewis and Clark Pass ( Montana ); Lewistown, Montana ; the Lewis Range of Montana's Glacier National Park ; Lewis Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona ; Lewis Avenue in Billings, Montana.

Interestingly, until 1960s, the city served as the capital to the now-defunct province of Qataqan, itself meaning " Old / Ancient city " ( from Turkic kata (" old / ancient ') and Eastern Iranian ( Sogdian ) kand, " fort ", " town ".

The fort was given up, the vicus was granted self government and became the capital of the Nemetes area, ‘ Civitas Nemetum ’, which covered the western Rhine plain of the Palatinate and northern Alsace.

Dunadd, ( Scottish Gaelic Dún Add, ' fort on the Add '), is an Iron Age and later hillfort near Kilmartin in Argyll and Bute, Scotland and believed to be the capital of the ancient kingdom of Dál Riata.

When Britannia was a Roman province, Carmarthen was the civitas capital of the Demetae tribe, known as Moridunum ( meaning sea fort ).

Belém began with the narrow streets of the Cidade Velha ( Old City ), a district which still preserves some structures that the Portuguese colonials built here, places like Forte do Castelo, a fort built to defend the region against French, Dutch and British colonization attempts, and one of the first structures in the capital.

The fort city of Fatehpur Sikri was used as the political capital of the Empire from 1571 to 1578.

It remained the capital for nearly one-and-a-half centuries, until, in 1372 CE, the government moved to Hassanabad fort, 6 km south of Sanandaj ( Sinne ).

It is thought the fort was built by the Cornovii tribe and was once their capital.

Their capital in pre-Roman times was probably a hill fort on The Wrekin.

When Britannia was a Roman province, Carmarthen was the civitas capital of the Demetae tribe, known as Moridunum ( meaning sea fort ).

The fort was built by the British Army and Canadian militia troops in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, to defend the settlement and the new capital of the Upper Canada region from the threat of a military attack, principally from the newly independent United States.

Simcoe had decided to make Toronto ( which he renamed York ) the capital of Upper Canada, and the government, the first parliament buildings and the town were established one and a half miles east of the fort ( near the foot of the present Parliament Street ).

Their capital was probably the Traprain Law hill fort in East Lothian, until that was abandoned in the early 400s, moving to Din Eidyn ( Edinburgh ).

Following the relocation of his capital to Taleex in 1909, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan and his Dervish forces constructed a fort in the Ogaden near Beledweyne to consolidate his control over the Ogaden region.

There are 8 world heritage sites within the country which include ; the hill capital kandy, the sacred city of Anuradapura, The Dutch fort of Galle, The ancient city of Polonnaruwa, The rock fortress of Sigiriya, The golden rock temple of Dambulla, the beautiful Horton plains and the Singharaja rain forest.

Berar was one of them with Ellichpur as its capital and Gavilgad as its main fort.