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A citadel is the most fortified area of a town or city. It may be a castle , fortress , or fortified center. The term is a diminutive of city , meaning "little city", because it is a smaller part of the city of which it is the defensive core.
Guadiana River, Spain and Portugal (Duck River River – from Arabic wādi, 'river' and iberian anas, 'duck') Guadix River, Spain River of Acci River – Guad comes from Arabic wādi 'valley' or 'river', and ix is a corruption of Acci, the name of the town nearest the river during Roman times. [2]
Herat Citadel, Afghanistan; Citadel of Ghazni, Afghanistan; Antwerp Citadel, Belgium (demolished); Citadel of Dinant, Belgium; Citadel of Huy, Belgium; Citadel of ...
Citadel (comics), a fictional alien empire in the DC Comics universe Citadel, in Oldtown , a library and medical school run by maestres, in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire universe Citadel ( Half-Life ) , headquarters for Wallace Breen in City 17 in Half-Life 2
Citadelle, the French word for citadel, may refer to: Citadel of Quebec or La Citadelle, a military installation and government residence in Quebec City, Canada; Citadelle Laferrière or the Citadelle, a 19th-century fortress in Nord, Haiti; Citadelle (gin), a French brand of gin; Citadelle, a 1948 book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Most British rivers have used the River, place format for disambiguation rather than the River (parenthesis) format. Rivers with multiple names Occasionally, a river can have several genuinely distinct names. For example, the River Thames is called the River Isis beyond Oxford. The following rules are suggested for choosing a primary name for ...
Tori Spelling is looking back on her journey evacuating the L.A. wildfires. The actress, 51, revealed on her podcast misSPELLING on Friday, Jan. 17 that she and her five kids had fled their home ...
Further down the Avenue of the Dead, after a small river, is the area known as the Citadel, containing the ruined Temple of the Feathered Serpent Quetzalcoatl. This area was a large plaza surrounded by temples that formed the religious and political center of the city. The name "Citadel" was given to it by the Spanish, who believed it was a fort.