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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.
1516 AD An-Nakhl Fortress (by Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri). [ 7 ] [ 29 ] [ 32 ] [ 33 ] 1799 AD Qatiyah Fort, West of sinai (by General Lograng of Napoleon Army).
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Qala (disambiguation) or qal'a - Arabic word for fortress or castle Qalat (disambiguation) - places whose names contain the words Qalat, Qelat, Kalat, Kalaat, Kalut, or Kelat Qila (disambiguation) - Persian (Urdu, Hindi) variant of Arabic qal'a
"Krak" is derived from karak, the Syriac word for a walled city or fortress. [3] Before the arrival of the crusaders, the local Arab ruler had established a fortification on the site manned by Kurds, giving it the name, in Arabic, of Ḥoṣn al-Akrād (حصن الأكراد), or "fort of the Kurds". [4]
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 ]
'makhaira' [a sword]; Hebrew: מכוור; Arabic: قلعة مكاور, romanized: Qala'at Mukawir, lit. 'Mukawir Castle') [1] [2] was a Hasmonean hilltop palace and desert fortress, now in ruins, located in the village of Mukawir in modern-day Jordan, 25 km (16 mi) southeast of the mouth of the Jordan River on the eastern side of the Dead Sea. [3]
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".