Today, there is a separate region in the south of the vast territory of Yakutia, later named Kabarovsk, and this region was among the vast settlements of Yakut-Saka Turks in

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Some fortresses are remembered for the battles they fought, but Fort Cornwallis is remembered for the city it created. Standing at the northeastern tip of Penang island in Malaysia, this

In the middle of one of the most beautiful harbours in the world, ringed by the glittering skyline of modern Sydney, sits a tiny fortified island crowned by a squat

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