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EU: Old Portuguese fortress (kastel) in Mombasa (1927), Mombasa, Kenya, 1927

EU: Old Portuguese fortress (kastel) in Mombasa (1927)

1927 Mombasa, Kenya

The old Portuguese fortress at Mombasa, most likely Fort Jesus, built by the Portuguese in the late sixteenth century to guard the harbor entrance, photographed here in 1927.

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