star fort

Also known as bastion fort, trace italienne, star fortress

type of fortification based on bastions with a star shape

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Features of bastion forts - Table of Fortification, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia

A bastion fort or trace italienne (a phrase derived from non-standard French, meaning 'Italian outline') is a fortification in a style developed during the early modern period in response to the ascendancy of gunpowder weapons such as cannon, which rendered earlier medieval approaches to fortification obsolete. It appeared in the mid-fifteenth century in Italy. Some types, especially when combined with ravelins and other outworks, resembled the related star fort of the same era.