place

Citadel

Places

A fortified core inside or above a settlement. Not fortress as a free-standing stronghold alone, and not castle as the lordly house-fort.

Hellenic religion

  • Citadel appears in Hellenic religion.

    Herodotus’s siege and city speech seats citadels among the fortified high places cities defend. A named citadel in that traveler’s speech, not acropolis as the Athenian keep-apart and not castrum as a Roman flatten.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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