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.
alcazar (Moorish fortress in Spain) · citadel, castle, fortified town · quarterdeck
çekim: çoğul alcázares
eş: fortaleza
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish alcáçar, alcaçar, alcácer (c. 1253), Arabic الْقَصْر (al-qaṣr), via Andalusian Arabic, from Aramaic קַצְרָא (qaṣrā), from Latin castrum. Doublet of castro and castillo.
citadel (strong fortress that sits high above a city)
çekim: çoğul ارگها
köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (arg), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk-. Cognates include Old Armenian արգել (argel, “obstacle”) and Ancient Greek ἀρκέω (arkéō), Latin arx (“citadel”).
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.