Niš Fortress
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Enes Yılandiloğlu
Creators: Enes Yılandiloğlu
Contributors:
Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Nov 05, 2025 03:07 PM
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History
An eighteenth-century Ottoman fortress in Nis, Serbia, thought to have been built on the site of previous fortifications going back to the Roman period.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/865385553
43.3257724, 21.8954469
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location: Niš Fortress (AD 1 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Niş Kalesi (Turkish, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Niš Fortress (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Нишка тврђава (Niška tvrđava: In Cyrillic characters Serbian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- قلعه نيش (Ḳalʿa-i Nīş: Ottoman Turkish, AD 1400 - AD 1499)
- Niš Fortress located in Naissus (1000 BC - AD 2099)
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Pleiades
Enes Yılandiloğlu, and Tom Elliott, 'Niš Fortress: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/865385553> [accessed: 10 December 2025]
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