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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. 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 sake of economy. It is ...
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
Frank E. Brown and his team studied the site extensively when they began the Cosa excavations in 1948. The citadel was a fortified hill on which were built several temples, including the so-called "capitolium" of Cosa. In Lavinium, south of Rome, Castello Borghese is thought to be the possible site of the Roman-era arx constructed in the port city.
Fort Santiago was a citadel that was a part of the Intramuros, a walled city within Manila. The Igorots built forts made of stone walls that averaged several meters in width and about two to three times the width in height around 2000 BC. [31] The Muslim Filipinos of the south built strong fortresses called kota or moong to protect their ...
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
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Umma – "One of the brotherhood of prophets; a term of scorn in the Imperium, meaning any 'wild' person given to fanatical prediction." [4] Usul – Fremen word, meaning "The strength at the base of the pillar." [4] This is the secret "sietch name" (known only to his tribe) given to Paul Atreides upon his joining the Fremen.
Kasbah of Sfax in Tunisia. A kasbah (/ ˈ k æ z b ɑː /, also US: / ˈ k ɑː z-/; Arabic: قصبة, romanized: qaṣaba, lit. 'fortress', Arabic pronunciation:, Maghrebi Arabic:), also spelled qasbah, qasba, qasaba, or casbah, is a fortress, most commonly the citadel or fortified quarter of a city.