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Al-Nasir’s claim to fame was building up the Citadel area that the Mamluk Empire ruled from. The Citadel resided aside from the more day-to-day people’s market place. Al-Nasir wiped out the library and audience halls of his predecessor and sponsored the building of a grand palace, aqueduct , and mosque for his own personal use in their place.
The Citadel Military College of South Carolina [6] (simply known as The Citadel) is a public senior military college in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.Established in 1842, it is the third oldest of the six senior military colleges in the United States.
The Citadel stopped being the seat of government when Egypt's ruler, Khedive Ismail, moved to his newly built Abdin Palace in the new downtown Cairo in 1874. Despite its elaborate defenses, the Citadel never ended up being subjected to a true siege, though it was implicated on various occasions in the political conflicts within Cairo or Egypt. [6]
The Tower of David (Hebrew: מגדל דוד, romanized: Migdál Davíd), also known as the Citadel (Arabic: القلعة, romanized: al-Qala'a), is an ancient citadel and contemporary museum, located near the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem. The citadel that stands today dates to the Mamluk and Ottoman periods.
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A citadel is the most fortified area of a town or city. It may be a castle , fortress , or fortified center. 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.
Arnold was performing in A Christmas Carol at Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre on Sunday, Nov. 24, at the time of his death. No cause of death had been released as of Thursday, Nov. 28.
On November 28, 1976, Harry De La Roche, Jr., an 18-year-old cadet at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, on furlough after his first three months at the citadel, fatally shot his parents and younger brothers with a .22 caliber pistol as they slept in their home in Montvale, New Jersey.