Kula

Origin

From a South language, from Turkish kule, from Persian قله, from Arabic قلة (qulla, "pinnacle, zenith").

Full definition of kula

Noun

1. A tower, turret or a steeple on the Balkans erected during the period of Ottoman Empire domination on the area.
• 1867, Georgina Mary Muir Mackenzie, Lady Georgina Mary Muir Sebright, Mackenzie Sebright, Adeline Paulina Irby, Travels in the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey-in-Europe, p. 107:Instead of the haïdooks, their next of kin, the zaptiés now hold a kula on the highest point of the pass; here one pauses to rest after scrambling up the vile Turkish road on one side of the ravine, and before scrambling down the vile Turkish road on the other.
• 1998, Adil ZulfikarpaÅ¡ić, Milovan Djilas, Nadežda Gaće, The Bosniak, p.5:The most important kulas of the ÄŒengić-begs are those in Zagorje, in Rataji and the River Odžak near Ustikolina.
• 1998, Miranda Vickers, Between Serb and Albanian, p. 111:The kulas were indeed like fortresses, with as many as twenty 'guns', ie. adult men ready to fight.----