The word acropolis comes from the Greek words ( akron, " edge, extremity ") and ( polis, " city ").

At some point before the 13th century an earthquake caused a fissure near the northeastern edge of the acropolis.

According to the late Byzantine Patria of Constantinople, ancient Byzantium was enclosed by a small wall, which began on the northern edge of the acropolis, extended west to the Tower of Eugenios, then went south and west towards the Strategion and the Baths of Achilles, continued south to the area known in Byzantine times as Chalkoprateia, and then turned, in the area of the Hagia Sophia, in a loop towards the northeast, crossed the regions known as Topoi and Arcadianae and reached the sea at the later quarter of Mangana.

From the cape at the edge of the ancient acropolis of the city ( modern Sarayburnu, Seraglio Point ), south and west to the Marble Tower, the Propontis Wall and its gates went as follows:

Before the end of the 1st century BCE a temple platform ( the acropolis ) was created along the western edge of the plateau.

The word acropolis literally in Greek means " city on the extremity " and though associated primarily with the Greek cities Athens, Argos, Thebes, and Corinth ( with its Acrocorinth ), may be applied generically to all such citadels, including Rome, Jerusalem, Celtic Bratislava, many in Asia Minor, or even Castle Rock in Edinburgh.

* Acropolis (" high city "), Athens, Greece ( this is the most well-known example of acropolis ; in fact an acropolis area was part of almost every ancient Greek polis and it was more like a function-part of an ancient polis ( like e. g. agora, walls, etc.

The city had vanished, except fragments of wall and of a great stone cistern on the acropolis.

Ahhiya ( wa ) has been identified with the Achaeans of the Trojan War and the city of Wilusa with the legendary city of Troy ( note the similarity with early Greek Wilion, later Ilion, the name of the acropolis of Troy ).

Geophysically the city is likewise surrounded by the narrow coastal plain of Vocha, Corinthian Gulf, Corinth Canal, the Isthmus of Corinth, Saronic Gulf, Oneia Mountains, and the monolithic rock of Acrocorinth, where the medieval acropolis was built.

Completed in 380, the treasury draws inspiration mostly from the Temple of Hera located in the Argolis, the acropolis of the city.

Around 969, Emperor Nicephorus II Phocas rebuilt the fortifications on the acropolis and in part of the city.

The ruins of Amphipolis as envisaged by E. Cousinéry in 1831: the bridge over the Strymon, the city fortifications, and the acropolis

View from the acropolis, or high city

Until the last century the city was distinguished into three different groups: the walled city where the castle stood, and that was identified with the ancient acropolis greek-Roman urban center, the Village or the Upper Town on the hill slope and the New Town, plain.

During this period the inhabitants of Agrigentum largely abandoned the lower parts of the city and moved to the former acropolis, at the top of the hill.

Charles V then had his Spanish subjects repopulate the island and build the massive city walls atop the walls of the ancient Greek acropolis in 1556.

Cadmus founded the Greek city of Thebes, the acropolis of which was originally named Cadmeia in his honor.

The central gods of the Athenian acropolis were Poseidon Erechtheus and Athena Polias, " Athena patron-guardian of the city ".

The ruins of Xanthus are on the south slopes of a hill, the ancient acropolis, located on the northern outskirts of the modern city, on the left bank of the Xanthus, which flows beneath the hill.

The walls, both of the island and on the mainland, can be traced throughout their whole circuit ; and in many places, especially round the acropolis, at the northeast corner of the city, they are remarkably perfect.

* Timophanes, along with a number of colleagues, including his brother Timoleon, takes possession of the acropolis of Corinth and Timophanes makes himself master of the city.

Once inside, he seized the Cadmeia ( the Theban acropolis ), and forced the anti-Spartan party to flee the city.

A basis with the signature of Antenor, son of Eumares, has been shown to belong to one of the dedicated female figures of archaic style which have been found on the acropolis of his native city.

Found at the acropolis in Ras Shamra ( ancient city of Ugarit ).

After the founding of the Neapolis, the old city seems to have functioned as an acropolis ( fortress and temple ).

The remains of the acropolis fortifications are very interesting, including roads and ditches hewn in the rock ; but beyond ruins of two churches, a gatehouse, and a fine keep built by Thoros I There are no notable structures in the upper town.

The polygonal walls of the acropolis may still be seen in a fair state of preservation on a circular hill standing about above the little plain of Exarcho ; one gateway remains, and there are also traces of town walls below.

" There was also, beside the acropolis, the Hanging Garden, as it is called, which was built, not by Semiramis, but by a later Syrian king to please one of his concubines ; for she, they say, being a Persian by race and longing for the meadows of her mountains, asked the king to imitate, through the artifice of a planted garden, the distinctive landscape of Persia.

On the way there, in 383 the Spartan commander Phoebidas, invited by a pro-Spartan faction, seized the Theban Kadmeia ( the Theban acropolis ) and left a Laconophile oligarchy supported by a Spartan garrison ; even the pro-Spartan Xenophon could only attribute the act to madness.

In Italy, populations that had clustered within reach of Roman roads began to withdraw from them, as potential avenues of intrusion, and to rebuild in typically constricted fashion round an isolated fortified promontory, or rocca ; Cameron notes similar movement of populations in the Balkans, ' where inhabited centres contracted and regrouped around a defensible acropolis, or were abandoned in favour of such positions elsewhere.

Choiseul-Gouffier was the first to propose excavations in Pergamon ; the other three travelers made drawings of the city's acropolis.

He urged the preservation of the antiquities on the acropolis and attempted to find partners to assist in an excavation ; as a private person he was not equal to such a major task, lacking the financial and logistic resources.

The city also show signs of having been a magnificent Canaanite city prior to its destruction, with great temples and opulent palaces, split into an upper acropolis, and lower city ; the town evidently had been a major Canaanite city.

The highest part of the town, the acropolis ( 2nd-1st centuries BC ), is fortified also ; it has massive retaining walls similar to those of the lower town.

John and Paul occupies a part of the level top of the ancient acropolis ; it was reconstructed on the site of an older church in 1099-1118 ; the interior was modernized in 1693, but was restored to its original form in 1902.

His tomb is in the center of the Copán acropolis ; he is buried with jade and shell jewelry, including his ' goggle-eyed ' headress.

The term acropolis is also used to describe the central complex of overlapping structures, such as plazas and pyramids, in many Maya cities, including Tikal and Copán.

In 1907, the sanctuary of Athena " of the Brazen House " ( Chalkioikos ) was located on the acropolis immediately above the theatre, and though the actual temple is almost completely destroyed, the site has produced the longest extant archaic inscription of Laconia, numerous bronze nails and plates, and a considerable number of votive offerings.

Coincidentally archaeology has turned up a major fire on the acropolis of Xanthus in the mid-6th century BC, but as Anthony Keen points out, there is no way to connect that fire with the event presented by Herodotus.

The most usual setting for the story of Semele is the palace that occupied the acropolis of Thebes, called the Cadmeia.

Their bases survive throughout all of their length, and their height in some places reaches 7 meters, slightly below the original height, which is estimated at 9, 10 m. The thickness of the wall is very large, usually reaches the 6 meters, while at the points that are opened the famous tunnels up to 17 m. A strong transverse wall is separating the acropolis in two sections-the south includes the palatial buildings, while the northern protects only the top of the hill area.

There is an underground Byzantine cistern, located in the Second Courtyard, which was used throughout Ottoman times, as well as remains of a small church, the so-called Palace Basilica on the acropolis have also been excavated in modern times.

The nearby Church of Hagia Eirene, though located in the First Courtyard, is not considered a part of the old Byzantine acropolis.

* Pelasgicon: The northern side of the Athenian acropolis, its equivalent in Cloudcuckooland is called Pelargikon – of the stork ( line 832 ).

There is an acropolis on the castle hill and some settlements below ( crafts ) and around it ( farming ).

It is an immense acropolis composed of numerous palaces and other civil structures.

The triadic acropolis is an architectural compound dominated by Structure C-9.

The largest triadic acropolis in the city, C-9 ’ s main pyramid is the tallest building at Naranjo.

The Lion Gate of the Mycenae acropolis is dry stone

The Roman Forum of Athens is located to the north of the acropolis and to the east of the original classical Greek agora.

There is an acropolis and a fortress built during the Frankish period.

The Shar-i-Zohak mound ten miles south of the valley is the site of a citadel that guarded the city, and the ruins of an acropolis could be found there as recently as the 1990s.

A Turkish military base has been built on the Carchemish acropolis and Inner Town, and access to that part of the site is presently restricted.

At approximately 10 km from Blera ( northern Lazio ) to the west of the frazione of Civitella Cesi, on the left bank of the small Mignone river, next to an abandoned railroad bridge is the acropolis of Luni sul Mignone.