Sentence examples for built in the seventeenth from inspiring English sources

It is a short walk to the grand Portuguese Synagogue, built in the seventeenth century for a wealthy Jewish community whose members had fled to Amsterdam in the late sixteenth century.

Originally built in the seventeenth century by the Portuguese as a smuggling settlement to undermine Spanish trading monopolies, all that remains is a crumbling old town with rutted cobbled streets, a fort and several museums.

Hill knew just the place: an oak that stood outside the Castillo de San Marcos, built in the seventeenth century, which would appeal to Rescorla's love of history and Celtic myth.

To see what the homes looked like originally, you need look no further than Mrs. Meaney's cottage, built in the seventeenth century.

Santa María de la Cabeza castle is a colonial castle built in the seventeenth century by the Spanish monarchy in the center of the city of Cumaná, Venezuela.

To the north of Habin, another hamlet in Rogate, North Lane crosses the river on Habin Bridge, which has four round-headed arches, and was probably built in the seventeenth century, but might be earlier.

Most were built in the nineteenth century.

It was built in the eighth century by the founding father of our lineage.

The Mets' lead, built in the first, was back to a more comfortable level again.

Which raises the question of why they were built in the first place.

"It was a big fight to get this built in the first place," she said.