Tags: Military Structure.
The Ram Fortress is situated on a steep slope on the right bank of the River Danube in the municipality of Veliko Gradište Serbia. The place first finds its reference in Trajanic times as a settlement where the cavalry units were stationed. In the year 1128 CE it is mentioned as being in the area where the Byzantines defeated the Hungarians. Sultan Bayazid II (1480–1512) built the present fortifications of Ram Fortress in the form of a regular pentagon designed to withstand cannon warfare.
