Fetislam Fortress
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Fetislam Fortress
Fortress with a long and significant history
The Ottoman Turks built a fortress on the bank of the Danube near Kladovo and named it Fetislam, which means “Victory of Islam”. The oldest description of Fetislam dates from 1666, written by the Ottoman travel writer Evliya Çelebi. The fortress consists of two fortification units from different periods: small fort and grand fortress.
The small fort was built in 1524, serving as a starting point for the Ottoman conquest of the neighboring Hungarian regions of Severin and Erdély (Transylvania). Two centuries later, during the Austrian-Ottoman wars, the grand fortress with six bastions and crenellated, up to 14 m high stone walls was built around the existing fort.
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The fortress had three entrance gates, one of them being a watergate to the Danube. The ramparts of the small fort were reinforced with 4 m high circular towers and symmetrically arranged triangular and rectangular bastions.
Fetislam was changing its rulers, who demolished and rebuilt it, adapting it to their military and strategic needs. It was among last Ottoman strongholds in Serbia from 1818 and in 1867 it was handed over, together with three other fortresses, to Prince Mihailo Obrenović of Serbia.
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