Chinon chateau was built for the first time in stone in 954 by theobald I, comte de Blois on a steep Plateau. The stronghold has replaced a lighter wooden structure, the passed to the rival comte d’Anjou Geoffroy Martel in 1044. The comte d’Anjou was the first to join the walls of the original defensive structures as well as adding towrs and the chapel of St. Melanie. The far east wing was added by Henry II Plantagenet until 1205 he and his descendants continued construction work adding the frotress to the east and the internal Chapel, the mill tower and the numerous reinforcement towers.
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Savonlinna (Nyslott in Swedish, literally Newcastle) is a municipality of about 28,000 inhabitants in the southeast of Finland, in the heart of the Saimaa lake region.
St. Olaf's Castle
The city was founded in the 17th century based around St. Olaf's Castle. The castle was founded by Erik Axelsson Tott in 1475 in an effort to protect Savonia and to control the unstable border between the Kingdom of Sweden and its Russian adversary.
The city hosts the famous annual Savonlinna opera festival. The operas are performed on a stage built within the castle.
Statistics
Population: 27,536 (2003)
Area: 1,374.00 km˛
of which is water: 551.74
Galanta (Hungarian: Galánta, German: Gallandau) is a small town situated in Slovakia. Its distance to the Slovak capital Bratislava is 50 km.
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The Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály spent most of his childhood in this town and composed the Dances of Galanta (1933, for
Habsburg is a municipality in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland, above the Aar valley. As of 2000, the population was 368. The territory of the municipality is 2.23 km˛.
Around 1020, Radbot of Habsburg built Habsburg castle, which became the family seat of the Habsburg. Though the family did not rule the land after the 1400s, the historic arms of Habsburg, a lion on a gold field, show up in Austrian arms up to the end of the Imperial period. The modern arms show Habsburg Castle. The area around this castle was covered by forests and only cleared around 1500.
Hunedoara (Hungarian: Vajdahunyad, German: Eisenmarkt) is a city in Hunedoara county, Transylvania, Romania.
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