Fort

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Antipyrgon (Tobruk)

Antipyrgon or Antipyrgos (Greek ᾽Αντίπυργον or ᾽Αντίπυργος, "fortress"): Byzantine fort in the Cyrenaica, modern Tobruk. Tobruk, view In the fifth century CE, new…

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Asciburgium (Moers-Asberg)

Asciburgium: Roman fort, part of the Rhine limes, modern Asberg.  Although the Roman historian Tacitus claims that Asciburgium ("fort of the ash wood") was founded by the Greek hero Odysseus, this auxiliary fort, opposite the confluence of the Ruhr and the…

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Athens, Acropolis

Athens (Greek:  Ἀθῆναι): one of the main Greek city-states. Athens, Acropolis from the east (with gate of Hadrian) The Athenian acropolis (citadel) was…

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