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The word kasbah may also be used to describe the old part of a city, in which case it has the same meaning as a medina quarter. In Algiers, the name qasaba originally referred to the upper part of the city which contained the citadel and residence of the rulers. [17]
Construction of the Marrakesh kasbah began in 1185 and finished by 1190, though al-Mansur's successors continued to build more palaces within it, totaling twelve by the end of the Almohad period. [1] [2] [4] The Kasbah Mosque. The Almohad kasbah was a vast self-contained district surrounded by ramparts and further subdivided by inner walls.
The kasbah takes its name from the Udaya tribe. This name only became associated with the kasbah in the 19th century after the tribe was permanently expelled from Fez. A fraction of the tribe settled in the then previously uninhabited kasbah. [2] The use of al-Widaya (الوداية) instead of al-Awdāya has become popular in Morocco.
The Casbah (Arabic: قصبة, qaṣba, meaning citadel) is the citadel of Algiers in Algeria and the traditional quarter clustered around it. In 1992, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization proclaimed Kasbah of Algiers a World Cultural Heritage Site, as "There are the remains of the citadel, old mosques and Ottoman-style palaces as well as the remains of a ...
The kasbah of Meknes was first created on this site by the Marinid sultan Abu Yusuf Ya'qub in 1276 CE; the same year that the citadel of Fes el-Jdid was built in nearby Fes as the new capital of the Marinid empire. [6] [7] (Though some sources also cite a kasbah existing near or on the site of Place el-Hedim since the Almoravid period. [8])
Kasbah, a type of citadel or walled town; Kasba Ganapati, the main Ganesh temple in Pune; Kasba, Kolkata, a neighbourhood in Kolkata, India; Kasba (Purnia), a town in Purnia district, Bihar, India; Kasba, Uttar Dinajpur, a town in North Dinajpur, West Bengal, India; Kasba Upazila in Brahmanbaria, Chittagong, Bangladesh
The Kasbah of Agadir Oufla [1] (Tashelhit: ⴰⴳⴰⴷⵉⵔ ⵓⴼⵍⵍⴰ, Agadir Uflla) is a historical landmark in Agadir, Morocco that housed the old city of Agadir, much of which was affected by the earthquake that struck the city. The fort is located on the top of a mountain rising 236 meters above sea level in the north of the town of ...
The exact meaning of the name is debated. [4] One possible origin of the name Marrakesh is from the Berber (Amazigh) words amur (n) akush , which means "Land of God". [ 5 ] According to historian Susan Searight, however, the town's name was first documented in an 11th-century manuscript in the Qarawiyyin library in Fez , where its meaning was ...