citadel A citadel is the core fortified area of a town or city. It may be a castle, fortress, or fortified center. The term is a diminutive of "city", meaning "little city", because it is a smaller part of the city of which it is the defensive core. In ...

is a castle, fortress, or fortified center. Citadel may also refer to:

Places

Citadel of Erbil The Erbil Citadel, locally called Qelat ( ku, قەڵای ھەولێر , قەراتی هەولێرێ, ) is a tell or occupied mound, and the historical city centre of Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The citadel has been included in the Wo ...

, a palace in Erbil, iraq *

Citadel of Aleppo The Citadel of Aleppo ( ar, قلعة حلب, Qalʿat Ḥalab) is a large medieval fortified palace in the centre of the old city of Aleppo, northern Syria. It is considered to be one of the oldest and largest castles in the world. Usage ...

, a palace in Aleppo, Syria *

Citadel, Calgary Citadel is a community in Northwest Calgary, Alberta. It is bordered by Stoney Trail on the north and west, Country Hills Blvd on the south, and Sarcee Trail on the east. Public transportation in Citadel is provided by Calgary Transit bus route ...

, a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada *

Citadel Hill (Fort George) Citadel Hill is a hill that is a National Historic Site in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Four fortifications have been constructed on Citadel Hill since the city was founded by the English in 1749, and were referred to as Fort George—but only ...

, a fortified hill in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada *

Citadel Island Citadel Island is a small, rugged, granite island in the Glennie group of islands off the west coast of Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, Australia. It is the site of the first automatic acetylene powered lighthouse installed by Australia's Comm ...

, Victoria, Australia

Arts and entertainment

Fictional entities

Citadel (comics) List of alien races in DC Comics is a list of fictional extraterrestrial races that have appeared in comic book titles published by DC Comics, as well as properties from other media that are listed below, with appropriately brief descriptions and ...

, a fictional alien empire in the DC Comics universe * Citadel, in '' Oldtown'', a library and medical school run by maestres, in George R.R. Martin's ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' universe * Citadel (''Half-Life''), headquarters for Wallace Breen in City 17 in ''Half-Life 2''

Film and television

* ''Citadel'' (film), a 2012 film * ''Citadel'' (TV series), an upcoming Amazon Prime Video series

Gaming

* ''Citadel'' (video game), by Superior Software *

Citadels (card game) ''Citadels'' is a German-style card game, designed by Bruno Faidutti, originally published in French as ''Citadelles'' by MultiSim in 2000, illustrated by Julien Delval, Florence Magnin, Jean-Louis Mourier and Cyrille Daujean as graphic desi ...

, a German-style card game * ''Citadels'' (video game), a 2013 Arthurian video game

Literature

* ''Citadel'' (2011 novel), a novel by science fiction writer John Ringo * ''Citadel'' (1957), a non-fiction book by William S. White

Music

* ''Citadel'' (Ne Obliviscaris album) * ''Citadel'' (Starcastle album) * ''Citadel'', an album by

Muslimgauze Muslimgauze was the main musical project of Bryn Jones (17 June 1961 – 14 January 1999), a British ethnic electronica and experimental musician who was influenced by conflicts and history in the Muslim world, often with an emphasis on the Isra ...

* "Citadel" (song), a song by the Rolling Stones

Brands and enterprises

Citadel Broadcasting Citadel Broadcasting Corporation was a Las Vegas, Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada-based broadcast holding company. Citadel owned 243 radio stations across the United States and was the third-largest radio station owner in the country. Only iHeartMedia ...

, an American broadcast holding company *

Citadel Films Joseph Thaliath Jr. was an Indian film director and producer. Early life Hailing from a Christian family, he was the son of a High Court Judge in Thiruvananthapuram when it was known as Trivandrum in the Princely State of Travancore before indep ...

, a defunct Indian film studio *

Citadel LLC Citadel LLC (formerly known as Citadel Investment Group, LLC) is an American multinational hedge fund and financial services company. Founded in 1990 by Kenneth C. Griffin, it has more than $50 billion in assets under management . The company h ...

, a hedge fund management company *

Citadel Miniatures Citadel Miniatures Limited is a company which produces metal, resin and plastic miniature figures for tabletop wargames such as ''Warhammer Fantasy Battle'' and ''Warhammer 40,000''. In the past Citadel Miniatures was a separate company but i ...

, a miniatures company owned by Games Workshop *

Citadel Press Kensington Publishing Corp. is an American, New York-based publishing house founded in 1974 by Walter Zacharius (1923–2011)Grimes, William"Walter Zacharius, Romance Publisher, Dies at 87,"''New York Times'' (MARCH 7, 2011). and Roberta Bender G ...

, a publishing company *

Citadel Records Citadel Records is an independent record label from Sydney, Australia. It was established in the early 1980s by John Needham. Bands released through Citadel include Died Pretty, Deniz Tek, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists, The Trilobites, Porcelai ...

, an Australian independent record label *

Citadel Theatre The Citadel Theatre is the major venue for theatre arts in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, located in the city's downtown core on Churchill Square. It is the third largest regional theatre in Canada. History It began in a former Salvatio ...

, Edinburgh, Scotland

Computing

Citadel (malware) Citadel is a piece of massively-distributed malware based upon Zeus. It targets credentials stored in password managers such as Keepass, Password Safe and neXus Personal Security Client. By 2017 (it was first identified in 2011) Citadel had inf ...

, a ZeuS-based botnet alleged to have stolen over US$500,000,000 from personal bank accounts *

Citadel (software) Citadel is the name of a bulletin board system (BBS) computer program, and of the genre of programs it inspired. Citadels were notable for their room-based structure (see below) and relatively heavy emphasis on messages and conversation as opp ...

, a BBS software *

Citadel/UX Citadel/UX (typically referred to simply as "Citadel") is a collaboration suite (messaging and groupware) that is descended from the Citadel family of programs which became popular in the 1980s and 1990s as a bulletin board system platform. It is ...

, an implementation of Citadel that has evolved into a modern groupware platform

Other uses

Armored citadel In a warship an armored citadel is an armored box enclosing the machinery and magazine spaces formed by the armored deck, the waterline belt, and the transverse bulkheads. In many post-World War I warships, armor was concentrated in a very ...

, protective enclosure in a ship *

Halifax Citadels The Halifax Citadels were a professional ice hockey team based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. They played in the American Hockey League between 1988 and 1993. They were created by the relocation of the Fredericton Express and filled a void left by the ...

, a defunct American Hockey League team *

Operation Citadel Operation Citadel (german: Unternehmen Zitadelle) was a German offensive operation in July 1943 against Soviet forces in the Kursk salient, proposed by Generalfeldmarschall Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Manstein during the Second World War on ...

, part of the World War II Battle of Kursk *

Salvation Army citadel A Salvation Army corps is a local church organization and physical place of worship in The Salvation Army. Like the Christian term "church" a corps includes both the physical building and the body of members who attend at the building. In kee ...

, a Salvation Army meeting place