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Palace, Fort, and Museum: Instruments of Power and Status: Construction and Destruction
Once the site of the Aban, a stone royal fortress/museum built in the European mode, its destruction gave rise to a British colonial fortress, a forceful sign of occupation. Today it stands as…
Adum Royal Palace: From Empire's Core to a Shopping District
Throughout the 19th century, the five-acre Adum Royal Palace Complex was the center of an Empire that held its own against British onslaughts. Its death knell occurred in the 1890s, and the 20th…