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The Casbah (French) or as transliterated from Arabic Qasbah (from qasbah,
????, 'citadel') is specifically the citadel of Algiers and the traditional
quarter clustered round it. More generally, kasbah denotes the walled
citadel of many North African cities and towns. The word made its way into
English from French in the late 19th century (the Oxford English Dictionary
says 1895), hence its conventional English spelling.
In Rabat, the capital of Morocco since 1912, the Casbah of the Oudaya is
the military barracks encircled by walls with gates, built in the 16th and
17th centuries on ancient foundations.
Casbah of Algiers
The Casbah of Algiers is founded on the ruins of old Icosium. It is a
small city which, built on a hill, goes down towards the sea, divided in
two: the High city and the Low city. One finds there masonries and mosques
of the 17th century; Ketchaoua mosq
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