castrum

The name Kastrati is said to derive from the Latin castrum, which is not impossible, for the main road from Scodra to Dioclea must have passed through Lower Kastrati and have needed guards to protect it.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

The word castle evolved from the Latin word castrum meaning a closed fort or stronghold.

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For the same reason was a camp or leaguer of old called castrum, as if they would have said castum; because the soldiers, wrestlers, runners, throwers of the bar, and other such-like athletic champions as are usually seen in a military circumvallation, do incessantly travail and turmoil, and are in a perpetual stir and agitation.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

a camp or leaguer of old called castrum, as if they would have said castum; because the soldiers, wrestlers, runners, throwers of the bar, and other such-like athletic champions as are usually seen in

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

a camp or leaguer of old called castrum, as if they would have said castum; because the soldiers, wrestlers, runners, throwers of the bar, and other such-like athletic champions as are usually seen in

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

KASTRIOTI derives from Romans military words "castrum" and "castra", which is assumed to have taken from Ethrusts.

Heir of Skanderbeg! Walter Jon Williams 2009

Not satisfied, we also had a little outing to Chester, because of the Romanness of it I, for one, had been hearing of it for years and years and years in relation to the fact that the Romans left a legacy of place names in Britain and the standard example is Chester, from castrum, etc etc etc.

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Then came a messenger reporting that the Saxons were in rebellion; they had abandoned all their hostages, broken their oaths and induced the Franks at the castrum of Eresburg, by means of destructive siege-engines mala ingenia and fraudulent assurances, to evacuate this.

De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » Medieval Warfare in the reign of Charlemagne 2009

He captured the castrum of Syburg, rebuilt Eresburg and reached the river Weser at the place called Braunsberg, where the Saxons, who intended to defend the bank of the river, were arraying themselves for battle.

De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » Medieval Warfare in the reign of Charlemagne 2009

Not satisfied, we also had a little outing to Chester, because of the Romanness of it I, for one, had been hearing of it for years and years and years in relation to the fact that the Romans left a legacy of place names in Britain and the standard example is Chester, from castrum, etc etc etc.

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