However, Uplistsikhe reemerged as a principal Georgian stronghold during the Muslim conquest of Tbilisi in the 8th and 9th century.

The principal Roman stronghold in the area was at Vanduara (Paisley).

Alesia, their principal stronghold, lay atop a flattish, diamond-shaped mount surrounded by hills of much the same height.

A ride of two days would bring us to Blir Cadlys, the principal stronghold of the Cruin king.

He has attacked the principal strongholds of the Cruin and the Dorathi.

"I believe that it was the Romulans who destroyed the Army of Light's principal stronghold," Grelun growled.

Here they built their principal stronghold in North Cork.

For almost one hundred years, the area surrounding At'Taif had been the principal stronghold of the ultra-conservative Wahhabi faith.

But the fall of the principal Iranian military stronghold guarding the Strait of Hormuz was now a certainty.

It is my principal stronghold on these hills; for (as you have doubtless noticed) the eyrie is invisible both from the road above and from the valley below.