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Kobryn castles

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Kobryn castles were a complex of wooden defense and administrative structures that existed in the city of Kobryn in the 16th–18th centuries. Presumably, the first Kobryn castle (detinets) was founded in the 11th century by the heirs of the Kiev prince Izyaslav on the island at the confluence of the Kobrinka and Mukhavets rivers.The History of Kobrin The remaining earth embankments were dismantled in the 1880s when laying the Moscow–Warsaw chaussee. Read more on Wikipedia

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