Bač Fortress
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Bač Fortress is the medieval
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 fortress in the Serbia
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, in Vojvodina
Vojvodina
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. It is located near the town of Bač.

Built at the time of Hungarian
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 King Charles Robert I
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 (1310–1342). Then there are eight towers, various chambers of the county manager, hodinke, arrest the guards, kitchen, well, barn, etc.. Bač Fortress then became an important military, political, cultural and ecclesiastical seat. When your existing between the Mohács battle
Battle of Mohács
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 1529, the city and fort were under the Turkish
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 rule. From this period dates the descriptions of the fortress in Backa itineraries Evlia Ćelebia. According to traveler description the city was surrounded by a wide circle of trenches filled with water.

From the time of Rákóczi Rebellion (1703–1711) fortress was burned, destroyed and abandoned. In addition Bač fort remained the best preserved medieval fortress in Vojvodina
Vojvodina
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. In Bač and today are the ruins of the former fortress whose base is in the form of an irregular pentagon.

In the ruins there are four lateral and one central tower height of 18 metres, which was partially reconstructed.

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