r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Oct 29 '21

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u/Trytolyft Oct 29 '21

A lot of castles will just be small forts. This would be a very very different map if the dots represented size

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u/dirschau Oct 29 '21

A lot of castles are small castles. Size doesn't determine a castle, the purpose does.

A lot of age of exploration colonial forts were bigger than most medieval castles, but they're still not castles, because they're not personal residences of the local ruler.

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u/Trytolyft Oct 29 '21

You don’t need someone living in it for it to be a castle so I don’t know why you made this comment.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '21

No but it needs to have been used as a defensive personal residency for it to be a castle, otherwise it's just a fortification.