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1927: Serving as places of refuge and market centres, the Gallic towns resembled the acropoli of ancient Greece and the castles and fortified towns of the Middle Ages — Frantz Funck-Brentano, The Earliest Times, tr. Elsie Finnimore Buckley (Heinemann 1927, p. 62)
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1955: The ancient town, above which the modern one was built, has left a confusion of remains. It boasted two acropoli — Ogrizek, Greece (McGraw-Hill 1955, p. 207)
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1958: Here, some eighteen thousand people then lived, surrounded by cyclopean walls of polygonal masonry which, on the western slopes, connected three towers or acropoli at projected points above ravines. — Orcutt William Frost, Young Hearn (Hokuseido 1958, p. 9)
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1996: Then, little by little people built streets and houses that fanned outward in haphazard patterns from the acropoli. — Don Nardo, Life in Ancient Greece (Lucent 1996)
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