Yeni-Kale

Yeni-Kale (Ukrainian: Єні-Кале; Russian: Еникале; Turkish: Yenikale; Crimean Tatar: Yeñi Qale, also spelled as Yenikale and Eni-Kale and Yeni-Kaleh or Yéni-Kaleb) is a fortress on the shore of Kerch Strait in the city of Kerch.

[1][2] Yeni-Kale was built by Ottoman Turks in 1699–1706 on the Kerch peninsula that belonged to the Crimean Khanate.

[3] Yeni-Kale was armed with powerful cannons and took an important strategical place on the coast of Kerch Strait.

The fortress occupied area of 25,000 m2 and had two powder-magazines, arsenal, water reservoir, living houses, bath-house and mosque.

[4] Abaza Muhammad Pasha who was a commandant of Yeni-Kale fled to Sinop and the sultan sentenced him to death for the number of military failures.