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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.
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.
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 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 ...
Kasbah Mahdiyya (also written as Mehdya, Mehdia, Mahdiya), or Kasbah of Kenitra, (Arabic: قصبة المهدية; Berber: ⵇⵙⴱⴰ ⵎⴻⵀⴷⵉⵢⴰ) is a kasbah located in Kenitra, Morocco. It is situated at the mouth of the Sebou River on the Atlantic Ocean , 8 km (4.9 mi) west of the city's train station. [ 1 ]
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
Casbah is a roadhouse chain in Pretoria and Johannesburg, South Africa established in 1955 Kasba Tadla , a town in Béni-Mellal Province, Morocco Rock the Casbah , a song by English rock band The Clash from their 1982 album Combat Rock
Its name comes from the Arabic term al-qaṣabah ('the citadel' or kasbah), which became Alcazaba in Spanish. [ 1 ] : 9 It is the oldest surviving part of the Alhambra, having been built by Muhammad I Ibn al-Ahmar , the founder of the Nasrid dynasty , after 1238.