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South entrance or Kings Gate entrance to the Citadel in Copenhagen, Gate finished in 1663 to complete the 5-star Northeastern part of the City wall of Copenhagen, Citadel is today combined Military institutions, housing for soldiers and their families, and museum
Here is a look at the damage caused to my original copy of the Citadel lithograph. The tube the lithographs where sent in got crushed, and it caused quite a bit of surface damage to the lithograph. Those marks run the whole width of the lithograph. Bioware now ship the lithographs flat :)
Between 1828 and 1848, the Alabaster Mosque or Mosque of Muhammad Ali was built on the site. It gets its name from the Alabaster used on the lower section of the façade.
It was built in memory of Ali’s second son, Tusun Pasha, who died in 1816. It was also an attempt to erase the presence of the previous dynasty, the Mamluk, from the Citadel. Structures that were Mamluk in origin were destroyed to make way for the mosque.
The Citadel in Hue, Vietnam. January 2023.
The huge Citadel (11km around the outer wall) where the 13 kings of Vietnam ruled from 1802 to 1945. The last king abdicated at the end of the Second World War after the Japanese were kicked out and Ho Chi Minh took over. Most of the citadel area was destroyed during the Tet Offensive in 1968. There are three layers in the Citadel, each surrounded by a moat – the outer layer, and the inner layers which include the Imperial City and the Purple Forbidden City. The King occupied the centre layer. The area is being reconstructed gradually. The gardens are extensive and include many large and ancient bonsai plants.
Houses at the Erbil Citadel, which dates back to at least 5,000 B.C - making Erbil one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Since 2014 it has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Most of the mound (apart from one) had been abandoned recently so the government can renovate it. The government has plans to move back 50 families once the renovation is over.
Erbil, Iraqi- Kurdistan, Iraq.
Towering above downtown Amman, the site of the earliest fortifications is now subject to numerous excavations which have revealed remains from the Middle Bronze Age (2nd mill. BC) and the Iron Age (8th century BC), as well as from Hellenistic (2nd century BC) and late Roman to Arab Islamic Ages.
Banteay Srei is built largely of red sandstone, a medium that lends itself to the elaborate decorative wall carvings which are still observable today. The buildings themselves are miniature in scale, unusually so when measured by the standards of Angkorian construction.
The temple's modern name, Banteay Srei — citadel of the women, or citadel of beauty — is probably related to the intricacy of the bas relief carvings found on the walls and the tiny dimensions of the buildings themselves. Some have speculated that it relates to the many devatas carved into the walls of the buildings.
The Citadel in Hue, Vietnam. January 2023.
The huge Citadel (11km around the outer wall) where the 13 kings of Vietnam ruled from 1802 to 1945. The last king abdicated at the end of the Second World War after the Japanese were kicked out and Ho Chi Minh took over. Most of the citadel area was destroyed during the Tet Offensive in 1968. There are three layers in the Citadel, each surrounded by a moat – the outer layer, and the inner layers which include the Imperial City and the Purple Forbidden City. The King occupied the centre layer. The area is being reconstructed gradually. The gardens are extensive and include many large and ancient bonsai plants.