They followed the sounds of the shooting until they came to the old citadel.
Their old citadel on the shoulder of the mountain was small, but it was also well-placed and difficult to attack.
High above, on the old Byzantine citadel, the regime has set up sniper positions, so it can fire at will into the streets below.
A ring of outlying forts was built later around the old citadel.
The modern city of Bam was established later than the old citadel.
A more modern town arose later, on the right bank of the river, across from the old citadel.
Even as Dorrin gestures, his thoughts are calculating, wondering at the force it took to level the old citadel.
After the fall of Bidlis, 1400 Kurds continued to resist from the city's old citadel.
Far from being a challenger for power, it could not even hold on to its old citadels.
The old citadel remains; a fortified entrance gate, a ruined keep, some fine slabs of wall.