Immediately curious about the concentration of castles on the Ghanaian coast. Wonder what that's about.

During the height of the Triangle Trade, Europeans built a lot of forts to protect their interests along the Gold and Ivory Coasts; why these forts are considered castles by this site is beyond me (just for clarification: a castle is a fortified private residence).

Edit: I now realise that the site specifically says "Map of the world's great castles & fortresses", so I guess the site considers them fortresses, not castles. I retract my snark.

	▲	jameshart 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There is no taxonomy of these things you could make that will not cause some eyebrow raising choices. It counts Clarence House in London in its top 100 as a world famous ‘palace’ - it’s a Georgian townhouse. Age of sail trading post forts seem a relatively uncontroversial inclusion in comparison.
	▲	guyzero 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The title of the page is "Map of the world's great castles & fortresses". So those are latter.
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