province of Mesopotamia. It also bore the names Artagigarta, Baras, Basileon Phrourion, and Ingila. Under the name Ingila, it became a bishopric; no longer the...

possible that Cephaloedium was at this time merely a fortress (φρούριον, phroúrion) of Magna Graecia belonging to the Himeraeans and may have been peopled...

Greek world, several military establishments resembled civilian towns. A phrourion (Greek: φρούριον) was a fortified collection of buildings used as a military...

Mycenae (known for the huge stone blocks of its 'cyclopean' walls). A Greek phrourion was a fortified collection of buildings used as a military garrison, and...

hands of Roman General Pompey at the capture of the fortress at Caenon Phrourion. Monime is a character in Racine's five-act tragedy Mithridate. The actresses...

Gjirokastër (earlier Argurokastro). The terms stratopedon (army camp) and phrourion (fortification) were used by Greek language authors to translate castrum...

πόλις, meaning: wooden city/town) was a temporary military fortress (phrourion) in the naval base of Patala, founded in 325 BC by Alexander the Great...

Geographia in the mid-2nd century, in which he described Clysma as a phrourion. In 179, soldiers of the Ala Veterana Gallica were stationed at the city...

(8th-3rd century BC), while on Mount Turcisi are found the remains of a phrourion. Under Islamic rule, it was called "Zotica" and was home to a castle,...

same name, which had a later flourishing after the 7th century BC as a phrourion (fortress). The site is located in the middle of the Salso river valley...