citadels

(noun)

A central area in a city that is heavily fortified.

Related Terms

Examples of citadels in the following topics:

  • Peter's Domestic Reforms

    • The fortress  was the first brick and stone building of the new projected capital city of Russia and the original citadel of what would eventually be St.

  • Teotihuacan

    • Further down the Avenue of the Dead is the area known as the Citadel, containing the ruined Temple of the Feathered Serpent.

  • Operation Barbarossa

    • The failure of the operation drove Hitler to demand further operations inside the USSR of increasingly limited scope, all of which eventually failed, such as Case Blue and Operation Citadel.

  • Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette's Attempts to Escape

    • The king and his family were eventually arrested in the town of Varennes, 31 miles from their ultimate destination, the heavily fortified royalist citadel of Montmédy.