A fortified, central complex found in various Russian cities.
Origin
Similar forms are attested, per Vasmer's Etymological Dictionary, in earlier German Kremelin and French Cremlin, which are theorized to come from Old East Slavic кремльнъ, from кремль, whence Russian кремль.
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