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stronghold

A stronghold is a fortress. A stronghold is a place of refuge, survival or domination by a particular group or idea. The soldiers attacked the enemy stronghold on the hill. Cornwall is the last stronghold of the Cornish language.

stronghold

a strongly fortified defensive structure

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Although Iran is nowadays known for being a stronghold of Shia Islam, most Persian Muslims were Sunni until the XVth century.
That village is the enemy's last stronghold.

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Novgorod is the last stronghold of the Free Russia.
That's a Yank stronghold and.
Virginia City seems to be quite a Union stronghold, ma'am.
We can catch them before they reach their mountain stronghold.
From your stronghold, Spider's Web, you may yet aspire to all the world.
Although his castle became the stronghold of all England. Aella was unable to stop the Viking raids.
At the Osteria Zanin there is a stronghold.
At the Osteria Zanin there is a stronghold with about thirty men.
How far are we from the stronghold?
It's absolutely unprecedented in this stronghold of conservatism!
And in the Vatican close by, the Sistine Chapel. stronghold of the most celebrated frescoes in the history of painting.
In Vietnam, the Da Nang base, a major US stronghold, was attacked by the Viet Cong.
Our little American stronghold in the West is seldom given the opportunity. to offer hospitality to two such charming ladies.
Our stronghold is in Izu.
At the enemy stronghold!
Sweden is the great Protestant stronghold of Europe.
This is my stronghold, Holmes, equipped with all the modern conveniences of a successful man in my profession.
One of the most beautiful and noble buildings of the world towers above us, the stronghold of Northern Buddhism, the three hundred-year-old Potala.
On June 17. they met in Hitler's underground stronghold at Margival near Soissons.
Although his castle became the stronghold of all England, Aella was unable to stop the Viking raids.
Look at us - the last stronghold of gracious living in a world gone mad.
Masada. It was the last stronghold of our revolt against the Romans.
He's found the Kilaaks' underground stronghold.
That's supposed to be a real stronghold, and no one knows where it's located.
De Toro's stronghold.
US and British divisions under the command of general Mark Clark have broken out of the Anzio beachhead and are attacking the Nazi stronghold of Cisterna, driving the enemy to the hills where they are pounded day and night by our tanks and dive bombers.
Double-duty stronghold. fenced in, set out in a wide open area.
Let's hope this stronghold forgets about us.
Go on. Back to the stronghold.
It's my belief, gentlemen, that this map. will be the means to destroy Morgan's stronghold.
Give me 300 men and the ships that carry them. and I promise you I'll smash Morgan's stronghold!
The last stronghold of gracious living in a world gone mad.
An original and strange stronghold.
It was the last stronghold of our revolt against the Romans.
Crimea is the stronghold of the White vermin now. We've driven them there from all over Russia, lots of officers there.
First of all, I speak fast,. publicly thank to our Party stronghold. Quartermaster Quartermaster behind. and sob.. about regional protection.
At home, we called this the enemy's stronghold, because only rich tourists were staying here.
This is their last stronghold.
I thought that the army was the last hope of Japan, the last stronghold of the Japanese soul.
We will evacuate the stronghold, my captain?
It was an underground stronghold for a faction in the last civil war.

News and current affairs

The men at the barricades were persuaded to leave their stronghold; the insurrectionary leaders were either detained or escaped to Spain.
Moreover, Hamas has announced plans to recruit 1,500 additional security personnel for the West Bank, Fatah's stronghold.
He then methodically shelled positions held by moderate rebels, while no less methodically sparing the Islamic State's stronghold in Raqqa.
The stage is being set for transforming Islamabad into a Taliban stronghold.
Our ruling social democratic party has its stronghold in Romania's rural areas.
Sendero, which supplemented its income with drug production and timber smuggling, deliberately chose drought-weakened and deforested mountain villages as the stronghold of its insurgency.
Even the agreement to allow women and children to leave blockaded areas of the city of Homs - an anti-Assad stronghold - fell far short of international mediators' vision (and even this achievement seems to be in doubt).
Tragically, the signals from former Taliban in their southern Afghan stronghold of Kandahar were misread.
The end of fossil fuel's stronghold will come when we have cheap alternatives, especially in developing countries.
Yet it never managed to expand its reach beyond its stronghold in the north of the country.
The region was once a stronghold of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), an affiliate of the global terrorist organization.
At the height of the Soviet-Afghanistan war in the 1980's, Pakistan was the covert conduit for Filipino Muslim militants passing to and from Afghanistan and back to the island of Mindanao, which has long been a stronghold of Muslim rebels.

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