Fort Rotterdam or Fort Ujung Pandang (Fri Pandang) is a fort of Gowa-Tallo. The location of the fort is located on the beach west of Makassar, South Sulawesi.

The fort was built in 1545 by the King of Gowa-9 named I Manrigau Daeng Bonto Karaeng Lakiung Tumpa'risi 'kallonna. The castle was originally made from clay, but in the reign of King of Gowa 14th Sultan Alauddin construction of this fort changed into rocks sourced from the Karst Mountains in the Maros region. Fort Ujung Pandang, is shaped like a turtle who want to crawl down into the ocean. In terms of shape very clear philosophy of Gowa, that turtles can live on land and at sea. So even with the Kingdom of Gowa who were victorious on land and at sea.

The original name of this fort is Fort Ujung Pandang, the usual well-Makassar Gowa people call this fort called Fort Panyyua which is the headquarters of the Kingdom of Gowa frogmen. Gowa-Tallo Bungayya finally signed an agreement that one of the articles require Gowa to submit this to the Dutch fort. By the time the Dutch occupied this fort, Fort Ujung Pandang name was changed to Fort Rotterdam. Cornelis Speelman deliberately chose the name Fort Rotterdam in memory of his homeland in the Netherlands. The fort was later used by the Dutch as a central storage of spices in eastern Indonesia.

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