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Original scientific paper

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE FORTRESS OF KNIN

Bosiljka Bezić


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Abstract

The here shown four designs, origination from the late 17th and early 18th century, add to the knowledge of development of the fortress of Knin. The designs Nos. 1 and 3 offer information about the conditions prevailing in the fortress and the city of Knin at the time of their capture by the Turks in 1688, and about the position of the defending forces and their arms during the assault. The project of the new fortification of Knin according to Vauban’s system, made by the Venetian military architect Oratio Aberghetti, is shown in the design No. 3. The designs Nos. 2 and 4 show the condition in the fortress and city after the radical re-arrangement and extension of forts during the early 18th century in the ground plan as vell as the wiew from the East. The original designs are kept by the Corer Museum and the Marciana Library in Venice.

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Hrčak ID:

161574

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/161574

Publication date:

24.12.1980.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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