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What is a citadel?

What is a citadel? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A strong fortress that sits high above a city.
  2. (sometimes figuratively) A stronghold or fortified place.
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Each city was laid out on a grid plan with a high citadel and a lower city of domestic dwellings.
Here an ancient citadel coils around an old port and bijou restaurants crowd around a modern marina.
Bibracte was a Gallic citadel on Mount Beuvray, in the heart of the Morvan region, about a half-hour from Autun.
It was only when he had almost reached the citadel that he leapt on his horse and rode off.
After the initial skirmishes of the battle, the French withdrew to their massive citadel.
By memorialising him in a suit, the Dalits were celebrating his successful storming of an upper caste citadel.

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