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Korlai Fort (also called Morro) near Alibaug is a Portuguese fortification in the town of Korlai,Maharashtra, India.
It was built on an island.

This fort was built in 1521 by the Portuguese with the permission of the Ahmednagar sultanate.

The fort is 2828 feet long and its average breadth is eighty-nine feet.
The enclosing wall is 5' 3" high and has 305 battlements for guns.

It is entered by eleven gates - four are outer and seven are inner.


There was a church in the fort. The church was built in 1630 for the use of the army and was functional until 1728.
The church within the fort was used for worship on Sundays and holidays

the Ahmednagar sultanate occupied the island and no further fortification of the island took place. Only a wooden cross remained on the island as a sign of its former rulers.

However, in 1594, Abranches, a Portuguese captain with 1,500 soldiers and 1,500 natives took possession of the fort. The besieged soldiers of the Sultanate tried to block their way by putting a dead elephant at the main gate and a dead horse at the inner gate. But in the end they had to surrender. The Portuguese won the fort but not having enough men to stand guard there chose to destroy it leaving only the central tower and a battery intact.

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