Fort (disambiguation)

Not to be confused with Forte (disambiguation) or Fortes (disambiguation).

A fort is a fortification, a defensive military construction.

Types of fortifications

• Castle, fortified building
• Defensive wall, fortified wall
• Blanket fort or pillow fort, built by children
• Device Forts, England from 1539
• Hill fort, European Bronze Age / Maori / Indian
• Martello tower, British Empire 19th century
• Promontory fort, mainly Iron Age
• Star fort, 15th and 16th century Europe
• Tegart fort, Palestine from 1938
• Wagon fort, many periods and places
• Playplace, for children, also known as a play fort

Places

in Australia

• The Fort Arts Hub (Brisbane), an independent centre for the arts, Brisbane

in India

• Fort (Mumbai precinct), a neighborhood in India

in Sri Lanka

• Fort (Colombo), the central business district of Colombo, Sri Lanka

In the United Kingdom

• The Fort Shopping Park, a retail park in Birmingham

in the United States

• A name prefix used for many Army bases and cities built around them.
• The Fort (Taft, California), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Kern County, California
• The Fort (Morrison, Colorado), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Colorado
• The Fort (Gillette Stadium), area of soccer stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts
• The Fort (North Lewisburg, Ohio), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Union County, Ohio

Other meanings

• Fort (surname)
• Fort (band), an Australian band
• Forts (album), an album by The Boggs
• Fleet Fort, a Canadian World War II aircraft
• RPC Fort, a Ukrainian arms manufacturer
  • Fort 12, a Ukrainian semi-automatic pistol
• Fort, journal of the Fortress Study Group, academic journal on military fortification
• The Fort, a novel written by Bernard Cornwell
• Michael McKenry, a baseball player, has been nicknamed "Fort" or "The Fort"

See also

• Fortress (disambiguation)
• Category:Forts for Wikipedia articles on forts
• Wikipedia articles starting with "Fort"