Fort Rotterdam
Fort Rotterdam is a 17th-century fort in Makassar on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. It is a Dutch fort that was built on top of an existing fort of the Gowa Kingdom.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include La Galigo Museum and Kelenteng Xiang Ma.
Kelenteng Xiang Ma
Place of worship
Kelenteng Xiang Ma is a place of worship, which is situated 630 metres northeast of Fort Rotterdam.
Fort Rotterdam
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: Dutch fort built in Makassar on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia during the 1670s
- Categories: fort, military museum, fortification, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Makassar, Makassar Metropolitan Area, Southern Sulawesi, Sulawesi, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
-5.13394° or 5° 8′ 2″ south
Longitude
119.40563° or 119° 24′ 20″ east
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
Inception
1679
Open location code
6P6XVC84+C7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=fort
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Fort Rotterdam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حصن روتردام”
- Banjar: “Fort Rotterdam”
- Betawi: “Benteng Fort Rotterdam”
- Catalan: “Fort Rotterdam”
- Chinese: “鹿特丹堡”
- Czech: “Pevnost Rotterdam”
- Dutch: “Fort Rotterdam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حصن روتردام”
- French: “fort Rotterdam”
- French: “Fort Rotterdam”
- German: “Fort Rotterdam”
- Greek: “Φρούριο Ρότερνταμ”
- Hindi: “फोर्ट रॉटरडैम”
- Indonesian: “Benteng Fort Rotterdam”
- Indonesian: “Benteng Panynyua”
- Indonesian: “Benteng Penyu”
- Indonesian: “Benteng Rotterdam”
- Indonesian: “Benteng Ujung Pandang”
- Italian: “Forte Rotterdam”
- Japanese: “ロッテルダム要塞”
- Javanese: “Bèntèng Rotterdam”
- Korean: “로테르담 요새”
- Malayalam: “ഫോർട്ട് റോട്ടർഡാം”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Fort Rotterdam”
- Portuguese: “Forte de Roterdão”
- Russian: “Форт Роттердам”
- Spanish: “Fuerte Róterdam”
- Sundanese: “Benteng Rotterdam”
- Vietnamese: “Fort Rotterdam”
- “Benteng Rotterdam”
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