Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Kasbah of Sfax in Tunisia. A kasbah (/ ˈ k æ z b ɑː /, also US: / ˈ k ɑː z-/; Arabic: قصبة, romanized: qaṣaba, lit. 'fortress', Arabic pronunciation:, Maghrebi Arabic:), also spelled qasbah, qasba, qasaba, or casbah, is a fortress, most commonly the citadel or fortified quarter of a city.
Fortification of Memphis [2] Fort of Walls of the Prince (inebw heka), Eastern Delta. [2] Fortress of Wadi Natrun, western Delta. [2] Rhakotis fort, Alexandria [3] Tahpanhes fort or Castle of the Jew's Daughter; Heliopolis Fortifications. [4]
Chefchaouen (Arabic: شفشاون, romanized: Shafshāwan, IPA: [ʃafˈʃaːwan]) is a city in northwest Morocco.It is the chief town of the province of the same name and is noted for its buildings in shades of blue, for which it is nicknamed the "Blue City". [1]
What is known in English as a "desert castle" is known in Arabic as qaṣr (singular), quṣur being the plural. [1] However, qasr is a widely-used Arabic word for palace, castle or fortress, so only a few of the buildings called quṣur are "desert castles".
In the pre-Islamic Iran and Turkestan towns consisted of a fortress called diz (also means "fortress" in Persian), and the actual town which was called shahristan. Middle Eastern Islamic geographers use the word kuhandiz for the oldest part of the settlements in the town centers.
The Citadel of Qaitbay (or the Fort of Qaitbay; Arabic: قلعة قايتباي) is a 15th-century defensive fortress located on the Mediterranean sea coast, in Alexandria, Egypt. It was built from 1477 to 1479 AD (882–884 AH) by Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qa'it Bay. [2]
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file
Arabic, Persian. Fortified place, fort, fortress, castle; [4] see All pages with titles containing Qalat Casbah, Kasbah, Qaṣba, Qaṣbah, Qaṣaba Arabic: القصبة, romanized: al-qaṣaba), a kind of medina (old city) or fortress All pages with titles containing Casbah; All pages with titles containing Qasba; All pages with titles ...