" 'FROO-RHEE-ON " or " O-KHEE-'RHON "
Q: Around what feature was a Greek polis built?A: A Greek polis was usually built around a strong fortress.
Barracks
He had his house locked down like a fortress.
"The soldiers defended the fortress as best they could." "The fortress was built to defend again attacks by Viking raiders." "His stoic demeanor was his fortress against the cruelty the world can inflict."
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Polis is the Greek word for a city-state, that is a tract of farmland on which was built a city and its protective fortress (acro-polis = high city, that is the fortress on a hill, around which the city came to be built). It was independent - self ruled - which is why the term city-state is used.
The word "fortress" has two (2) syllables.1 ....... 2for - tress
In the King James version the word - fortress - appears 15 times the word - fortresses - appears twice
stockade
To solve Fortress Riddle number 6, you must rearrange the letters in the word "scaffold" to form another word. The word you are looking for is "floods."
There are two syllables. For-tress.