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Fort Immanuel,Fort Kochi

Fort Immanuel,Fort Kochi
Photo: Challiyan at ml.wikipedia, CC BY 2.5 (licence)

Fort Emmanuel, also known as Fort Manuel, is a ruined fort located at Fort Kochi Beach in Kochi (Cochin), Kerala, India. It was built by the Portuguese to be a bastion & a symbol of the strategic alliance between the Kingdom of Cochin and the Kingdom of Portugal. Named after Manuel I of Portugal, it was the first European fort built in Asia.

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