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Fort San Juan (Joara)

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A portion of a 1584 colored map showing the location of various Native American chiefdoms in the Spanish territory of la Florida, covering most of the United States' southeast.

Fort San Juan was a late 16th-century fort built by the Spanish under the command of conquistador Juan Pardo in the native village of Joara, in what is now Burke County, North Carolina.[1][2] Used as an outpost for Pardo's expedition into the interior of what was known to the Spaniards as "la Florida", Fort San Juan was the foremost of six forts built and garrisoned by Pardo in modern-day North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee to extend Spain's effective control deeper into the North American continent.

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