1) Acropolis 2) Fort 3) Fortification 4) Fortress 5) Kremlin 6) Stronghold 7) Zitadelle
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1) Any strongly fortified place 2) Bastion 3) Canadian mountain 4) Charleston campus 5) City stronghold 6) DC Comics planet 7) Dialect used in stronghold 8) Dixie military school 9) Edmonton theatre 10) Fastness 11) Fortress 12) French word used in English 13) It may be held in battle 14) Kremlin or Tower of London
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A citadel is a fortress protecting a town, sometimes incorporating a castle. The term derives from the same Latin root as the word `city`, civis, meaning citizen. In a fortification with bastions, the citadel is the strongest part of the system, sometimes well inside the outer walls and bastions, but often forming part of the outer wall for the .....
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[U.S. Senate] Citadel (sub-title: The Story of the U.S. Senate) is a study of the United States Senate by the journalist William S. White. Written in 1956, the book anticipates the great changes afoot in post-war Washington. John Gunther in Inside U.S.A. had put the problem of Southern intractability over civil rights reform in perspective,...
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[software] Citadel is the name of a bulletin board system computer program, and of the genre of programs it inspired. Citadels were notable for their room-based structure (see below) and relatively heavy emphasis on messages and conversation as opposed to gaming and files. The first Citadel came online in 1980 with a single 300 baud modem; ...
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[video game] Citadel is a computer game developed for the BBC Micro and released by Superior Software in 1985. It was also ported to the Acorn Electron. A platform game with some puzzle solving elements, the game`s plot involves finding five crystals hidden in various locations in a large castle, together with areas outside it (including a ...
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• (n.) A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense.
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(from the article `Budapest`) ...south of Castle Hill rises the higher Gellért Hill (771 feet), a steep limestone escarpment overlooking the Danube, which provides a panoramic ...
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(from the article `Vidor, King`) ...Elmer Rice; Our Daily Bread (1934), dealing with the formation of a farm cooperative; The Wedding Night (1935), containing a sensitive depiction ...
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(from the article `Central Asian arts`) ...in the more prosperous, more heavily populated, and more highly urbanized state of Chorasmia (later Khwrezm). Chorasmia`s defensive architecture ... The excavations revealed that Harapp was similar in plan to Mohenjo-daro, with a citadel resting on a raised area on the western flank of the town...
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stronghold within or close to a city
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Heavily fortified, independent defensive structure within city walls, dominating an ancient or medieval town; in the bastion system, the strongest part of the fort.
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Cit'a·del noun [ French
citadelle , Italian
citadella , di.... of
citt... city, from Latin
civitas . See
City .] A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense.
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A citadel was a key feature of a Greek city, being the stronghold around which large communities originally developed. When a city expanded, and a protective encircling wall was built to protect the citizens' houses, the citadel lessened in importance, though it often became a religious centre and housed the public treasury. The acropolis of Athens...
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Fortress, Keep.
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A fortress that is within a part of a town but is isolated from it, forming a fortified town within a town. Sometimes it is known as an inner castle, ickale in Turkish.
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citadel 1. A fortress or strongly fortified building in or near a city, used as a place of refuge. 2. An organization or institution which strongly defends a particular way of life or principle. 3. A stronghold or fortified place; a bulwark. 4. Etymology: from 1586, 'fortress commanding a city', from Italian cittadella, diminutive (small version...
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stronghold within or close to a city
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Operational code name for the German attack on the Soviet forces near Kursk, July 1943
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noun a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle
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a fortress that commands a city and is used in the control of the inhabitants and in defense during attack or siege. · any strongly fortified place; stronghold. · (formerly) a heavily armored structure on a warship, for protecting the engines, magazines, etc.
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