Meaning of acropoli | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“1927: Serving as places of refuge and market centres, the Gallic towns resembled the acropoli of ancient Greece and the castles and fortified towns of the Middle Ages — Frantz Funck-Brentano, The Earliest Times, tr. Elsie Finnimore Buckley (Heinemann 1927, p. 62)”

“1955: The ancient town, above which the modern one was built, has left a confusion of remains. It boasted two acropoli — Ogrizek, Greece (McGraw-Hill 1955, p. 207)”

“1958: Here, some eighteen thousand people then lived, surrounded by cyclopean walls of polygonal masonry which, on the western slopes, connected three towers or acropoli at projected points above ravines. — Orcutt William Frost, Young Hearn (Hokuseido 1958, p. 9)”

“1996: Then, little by little people built streets and houses that fanned outward in haphazard patterns from the acropoli. — Don Nardo, Life in Ancient Greece (Lucent 1996)”

“2004: Their political and religious centers included great acropoli of massed palaces, temples, stone tombs, and ballcourts. — Arthur Demarest, Ancient Maya (Cambridge 2004, p. 1)”

“2005: It can be no coincidence that the toponyms associated with these acropoli are based on the word ha, just as we find⟳ at Palenque — Keith M. Prufer, In the Maw of the Earth Monster (UNiversity of Texas 2005, p. 163)”

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