fortress located on top of a hill or mountain · stronghold, heartland (a place or region where a certain ideology, religion etc. is held by a great majority of the population or with great conviction)
çekim: çoğul Hochburgen · tamlayan Hochburgen
köken: Calque of Ancient Greek ἀκρόπολις (akrópolis), from hoch + Burg.
fief · stronghold (district where a particular political party is usually assured of victory)
çekim: çoğul fiefs
köken: From Old French fief, borrowed from Medieval Latin fevum, a variant of feudum, from Old Frankish *fehu (“cattle, livestock”), from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“cattle, sheep”), from Proto-Indo-European *peku-, *peḱu- (“sheep”). Cognate with Old High German fihu (“cattle, neat”), Old English feoh (“cattle, property, money”). More at fee.
köken: From Old Swedish bolverk or bulværk, from Middle Low German bolwerk. Superficially equivalent to bål (“bole; stem; sturdy plank”) + verk. Doublet of bulevard. Cognate of German Bollwerk, Danish bolværk, Dutch bolwerk, English bulwark, French boulevard.
bastion, stronghold (place built to withstand attack) · bastion, stronghold (place of domination by, or refuge or survival of, a particular group or idea) · bastion (person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle)
çekim: çoğul bastiony · tamlayan bastionu
eş: beluarda, bulwar
köken: Borrowed from French bastion, from Old French bastille.