Kasbah

A kasbah, also spelled qasbah, qasba, qasaba, or casbah, is a fortress, most commonly the citadel or fortified quarter of a city. It is also equivalent to the term alcazaba in Spanish, which is derived from the same Arabic word.
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Residential area
  • Description: type of medina or fortress in Arab or Islamic places
  • Also known as: “Casbah of Algiers”, “kasbah”, “La Kasbah”, and “quasabeh”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ibn Faris Mosque and Ketchaoua Mosque.

Mosque
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The Ben Farès Mosque, also known as Djamaa Ben Farès and formerly as Djamâa Lihoud, is a located on Place Randon in , the capital of .

Mosque
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The , also known as Djamaa Ketchaoua, is a in the city of , the capital of . Completed in the 17th century, during Ottoman period, the mosque is located at the foot of the , a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is on the first of the Casbah's many steep stairways. is situated 170 metres east of Kasbah.

Mosque
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is situated 120 metres southwest of Kasbah.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bāb al-Wādī and Alger Centre.

Suburb
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Bab El Oued is a neighbourhood in , the capital of , along the coast north of the . As of 2008, the population of the commune of Bab El Oued was 64,732.

Suburb
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is a municipality in , . It is administratively part of Sidi M'Hamed district, and it has a population of 96,329 as of the 1998 census, which gives it 15 seats in the PMA.

Suburb
is a suburb of the city of in northern .

Kasbah

Latitude
36.7847° or 36° 47′ 5″ north
Longitude
3.05887° or 3° 3′ 32″ east
Elevation
58 metres (190 feet)
Open location code
8F85Q3M5+VG
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1173104236
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Geo­Names ID
2492676
Wiki­data ID
Q89468
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Kasbah” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “القصبات المغاربية”
  • Arabic: “القصبة”
  • Arabic: “قصبة الجزائر”
  • Arabic: “قصبة”
  • Basque: “Kasbah”
  • Belarusian: “Касба”
  • Bulgarian: “касба”
  • Catalan: “alcassaba”
  • Catalan: “kasbah”
  • Catalan: “qasba”
  • Chinese: “古堡”
  • Chinese: “城郭”
  • Croatian: “Kazba”
  • Czech: “Kasba”
  • Danish: “Kasbah”
  • Dutch: “Kasba (bouwwerk)”
  • Dutch: “kasba”
  • Dutch: “Kasba”
  • Esperanto: “Kasbaho”
  • French: “Casbah d’Alger”
  • French: “kasbah”
  • French: “Kasbah”
  • German: “Kasbah von Algier”
  • German: “Kasbah”
  • Greek: “Κάσμπα”
  • Greek: “Κάσμπαχ”
  • Hebrew: “קסבה”
  • Hungarian: “kaszaba”
  • Hungarian: “kaszba”
  • Hungarian: “Kaszba”
  • Ido: “Kasba”
  • Indonesian: “Kasbah”
  • Indonesian: “Qasbah”
  • Italian: “casba”
  • Italian: “Casba”
  • Italian: “Casbah di Algeri”
  • Italian: “kasba”
  • Italian: “kasbah”
  • Italian: “qasba”
  • Italian: “qaṣba”
  • Italian: “qasbah”
  • Japanese: “カサバ”
  • Japanese: “カスバ (建造物)”
  • Malay: “Qasabah”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “kasbah”
  • Norwegian: “Kasbah”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kasbah”
  • Persian: “قصبه (معماری)”
  • Persian: “قصبه”
  • Polish: “Kasba”
  • Polish: “Kasbah”
  • Portuguese: “Casbá”
  • Romanian: “Casbah”
  • Russian: “Касба”
  • Serbian: “Казба”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kazba”
  • Slovak: “Kasba”
  • Slovenian: “Kasbah”
  • Slovenian: “Kazba”
  • Spanish: “alcabaza”
  • Spanish: “casba”
  • Spanish: “Casba”
  • Spanish: “Casbah de Argel”
  • Spanish: “casbah”
  • Spanish: “kasbah”
  • Spanish: “qasbah”
  • Swedish: “Kasbah”
  • Turkish: “kasba”
  • Turkish: “Kasbah”
  • Ukrainian: “Казба”
  • Ukrainian: “Касба”
  • Upper Sorbian: “kasbah”
  • Urdu: “قصبہ”

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