Historic mountaintop fortress Crossword Clue

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Today's (8 January 2006) crossword provided to us by L.A. Times Daily and the clue is "Historic mountaintop fortress".
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MASADA



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Definition of "MASADA"

the site of the ruins of a palace and fortification built by Herod the Great on the south-western shore of the Dead Sea in the 1st century BC. It was a Jewish stronghold in the Zealots' revolt against the Romans (AD 66–73) and was the scene in AD 73 of mass suicide by the Jewish defenders when the Romans breached the citadel after a siege of nearly two years.


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