Citadel (disambiguation)
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A citadel
is a fortress for protecting a town and may also refer to:
Citadel
A citadel is a fortress for protecting a town, sometimes incorporating a castle. The term derives from the same Latin root as the word "city", civis, meaning citizen....
is a fortress for protecting a town and may also refer to:
Companies and organisations
- Citadel BroadcastingCitadel BroadcastingCitadel Broadcasting Corporation was a Las Vegas, Nevada-based broadcast holding company. Citadel owned 243 radio stations across the United States and was the third-largest radio station owner in the country...
, an American broadcast holding company - Citadel High SchoolCitadel High SchoolCitadel High School is a Canadian high school located in Halifax, Nova Scotia.The school opened in September 2007 on the site of the former Bell Road Campus of the Nova Scotia Community College...
, Halifax, Nova Scotia - Citadel LLC, a hedge fund management company
- The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
- Citadel MiniaturesCitadel MiniaturesCitadel Miniatures Limited is a company which produces metal, resin and plastic miniature figures for tabletop wargames such as Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40,000....
, a miniatures company owned by Games Workshop
Computing
- Citadel (software)Citadel (software)Citadel is the name of a bulletin board system software program, and of the genre of programs it inspired. Citadels were notable for their room-based structure and relatively heavy emphasis on messages and conversation as opposed to gaming and files...
, a BBS software - Citadel/UXCitadel/UXCitadel/UX is a collaboration suite that is descended from the Citadel family of programs which became popular in the 1980s and 1990s as a bulletin board system platform. It is designed to run on open source operating systems such as Linux or BSD...
, an implementation of Citadel that has evolved into a modern groupware platform
Film and television
- The Citadel (film)The Citadel (film)The Citadel is a 1938 film based on the novel of the same name by A. J. Cronin, first published in 1937. The film was directed by King Vidor and produced by Victor Saville.-Plot:...
, a film based on A. J. Cronin's novel - The Citadel (TV series)The Citadel (TV series)The Citadel is a 1983 BBC television adaptation written by Don Shaw from A. J. Cronin's novel The Citadel, which was originally published in 1937. It was produced by Ken Riddington. Other television versions include a British and two Italian adaptations.The BBC dramatisation stars Ben Cross as...
, at least three TV versions of Cronin's novel
Games
- The Citadel, a building featured in Half-Life 2Half-Life 2Half-Life 2 , the sequel to Half-Life, is a first-person shooter video game and a signature title in the Half-Life series. It is singleplayer, story-driven, science fiction, and linear...
. - The Citadel, the ruined remains of the PentagonThe PentagonThe Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia. As a symbol of the U.S. military, "the Pentagon" is often used metonymically to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building itself.Designed by the American architect...
inhabited by the Brotherhood of Steel in Fallout 3Fallout 3Fallout 3 is an action role-playing game released by Bethesda Game Studios, and the third major installment in the Fallout series. The game was released in North America, Europe and Australia in October 2008, and in Japan in December 2008 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360...
. - Citadel (video game), a video game by Superior Software
- Citadels (game)Citadels (game)Citadels is a German-style card game, designed by Bruno Faidutti and originally published in French as Citadelles in 2000, and later in German as Ohne Furcht und Adel, which means "Without Fear or Nobility."...
, a German-style card game originally published in French as Citadelles - The Citadel is a major location in the video game series Mass EffectMass EffectMass Effect is an action role-playing game developed by BioWare for the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows by Demiurge Studios. The Xbox 360 version was released worldwide in November 2007 published by Microsoft Game Studios...
. It is shown as the center of galactic co-operation. It is led by a council consisting three councilors from three major species. - Citadels are the home for the clans in the popular MMORPG RuneScapeRuneScapeRuneScape is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game released in January 2001 by Andrew and Paul Gower, and developed and published by Jagex Games Studio. It is a graphical browser game implemented on the client-side in Java, and incorporates 3D rendering...
. These offer customisation as well as user generated content for their users.
Literature
- The Citadel (novel)The Citadel (novel)The Citadel is a novel by A. J. Cronin, first published in 1937, which was groundbreaking with its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics. It is credited with laying the foundation in Great Britain for the introduction of the NHS a decade later...
, a novel by A.J. Cronin - Citadel Press, a publishing company
- Citadel (U.S. Senate)Citadel (U.S. Senate)Citadel is a study of the American Upper House by the journalist, William S. White. Written in 1956, the book anticipates the great changes afoot in post-war Washington...
, a non-fiction book by William S. White
Music
- Citadel (Muslimgauze album)Citadel (Muslimgauze album)Citadel is an album by Muslimgauze. The album also received a promo pressing and a bootleg pressing combined with Sufiq by Russian bootleg label Ars Nova. An additional various artists sampler CD was included with some orders, not containing any Muslimgauze tracks.-Credits:*Engineer - J...
- Citadel RecordsCitadel RecordsCitadel Records are an independent record label from Sydney, Australia. They were created in the early 80s by John Needham. Bands that released through Citadel include Died Pretty, Deniz Tek, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists, The Trilobites, Johnny Thunders & Patti Palladin, Harem Scarem, New...
, an Australian independent record label - Citadel (song), a song by the Rolling Stones
- Citadel (Starcastle album)
- Citadel Band, a 2004 album by Swedish artist Loney, DearLoney, DearLoney, Dear is the pseudonym of Swedish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Emil Svanängen. He has self-released four albums of music in his native Sweden. His first major release came in February, 2007 in the U.S. when Sub Pop re-issued his album Loney, Noir.-History:Emil Svanängen...
Places
- The Cairo CitadelCairo CitadelThe Saladin Citadel of Cairo is a medieval Islamic fortification in Cairo, Egypt. The location, on Mokattam hill near the center of Cairo, was once famous for its fresh breeze and grand views of the city...
, Egypt - The Citadel AirportThe Citadel AirportThe Citadel Airport is a private airport located 9 miles east of Sisters in Deschutes County, Oregon, USA....
, private airport near Sisters, Oregon, USA - The Citadel of AleppoCitadel of AleppoThe Citadel of Aleppo is a large medieval fortified palace in the centre of the old city of Aleppo, northern Syria. It is considered to be one of the oldest and largest castles in the world. Usage of the Citadel hill dates back at least to the middle of the 3rd millennium BC...
, ancient castle in Aleppo, Syria - Citadel, Calgary, neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Citadel Hill (Fort George), fortified hill in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Citadel IslandCitadel IslandCitadel Island is a small, rugged, granite island in the Glennie group of islands off the west coast of Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, Australia. It is the site of the first automatic acetylene powered lighthouse installed by Australia’s Commonwealth Lighthouse Service. There is no public access...
, Victoria, Australia - Citadel MallCitadel MallCitadel Mall is a regional shopping mall located in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. It opened in 1981 and is located just off the I-526 exit, the mall features more than 100 stores, including six anchor stores: Belk, Dick's Sporting Goods, Dillard's, JCPenney, Sears and Target...
, a shopping mall in South Carolina, USA - Citadel of Quebec, military installation, Canada
- Citadel TheatreCitadel TheatreThe Citadel Theatre is the major venue for theatre arts in the city of Edmonton, located in the Downtown Core on Churchill Square.-History:Originally the "Old Salvation Army Citadel", the Citadel was bought by Joseph H. Shoctor, James L. Martin, Ralph B. MacMillan, and Sandy Mactaggart, and the...
, Edmonton, Canada - CitadellaCitadellaCitadella is the Hungarian word for Citadel, a kind of fortress. The word Citadella is exclusively used by other languages to address the Citadel located upon the top of the strategic Gellért Hill in Budapest, Hungary.-History:...
, fortress on Gellért Hill, Budapest, Hungary - Citadelle LaferrièreCitadelle LaferrièreThe Citadelle Laferrière or, Citadelle Henry Christophe, or simply the Citadelle , is a large mountaintop fortress in northern Haiti, approximately south of the city of Cap-Haïtien and five miles uphill from the town of Milot...
, fortress and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Haiti - Openshaw CitadelOpenshaw CitadelOpenshaw Citadel was the third Salvation Army corps opened in Manchester. A comparison of corps incomes in suggests that Lower Openshaw had a large number of soldiers with little money when it opened in 1884. Lower Openshaw corps became known as ‘Poor man’s Palace’. It closed in the 1970's when...
, the third Salvation Army citadel, Manchester, England - Royal Citadel, PlymouthRoyal Citadel, PlymouthThe Royal Citadel in Plymouth, Devon, England, was built in the late 1660s to the design of Sir Bernard de Gomme. It is at the eastern end of Plymouth Hoe overlooking Plymouth Sound, and encompasses the site of the earlier fort that had been built in the time of Sir Francis Drake.During the Dutch...
, fortress in Plymouth, UK - Various underground facilities of the military in LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
including PindarPindarPindar , was an Ancient Greek lyric poet. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian described him as "by far the greatest of the nine lyric poets, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich...
, Q-Whitehall and the AdmiraltyAdmiraltyThe Admiralty was formerly the authority in the Kingdom of England, and later in the United Kingdom, responsible for the command of the Royal Navy...
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