Fort Kastela
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Fort Kastela is a ruined Portuguese fortress located at the southwest coast of Ternate. It is famous for being the first colonial fortification constructed in the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Built by
Kastella, Portuguese built in 1522, shown in 1607
Ruins of Kastella, Ternate
Saidi Berkat
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Sultan Saidi Berkat was the eighth Sultan of Ternate in the Maluku Islands. His capital and seat of power was in the city of Ternate. He succeeded to the extensive east Indonesian realm built up by hi
Fort Kastela
…Spanish (in a personal union with Portugal since 1580) dispatched a strong expedition from the Philippines and recaptured Kastella, taking hostage Sultan Saidi Berkat and exiling him to Manila in March 1606. They further modified the Gammalamma defenses into a powerful fortress and renamed it as Ciudad del Rosario…
Saidi Berkat receiving the Dutch, from a 1607 book.
Saidi Berkat and his entourage on the way to the mosque, according to Johann Theodor de Bry (1601).
The royal seat Gammalamo in Ternate as it looked in 1599, at the first Dutch visit.
Saidi Berkat entertains Jacob van Neck and his men, illustration from about 1654.