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The Kasbah of Aït Benhaddou, Morocco

A kasbah (Arabic: "القصبة") or Qassabah is a unique kind of medina, Islamic city, or fortress. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 495 KB) Kasbahs_in_Aït Benhaddou, southern Morocco. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 495 KB) Kasbahs_in_Aït Benhaddou, southern Morocco. ... Aït Benhaddou at evening light Aït Benhaddou is a fortified city or Ksar, along the former caravan route between the Sahara en Marrakech. ... Arabic redirects here. ... A medina quarter is a distinct city section found in many North African cities. ... Islam (Arabic: ; ( â–¶ (help· info)), the submission to God) is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions and the worlds second-largest religion. ...

It was the place for the local leader to live and as a defense when the city was under attack. A kasbah has high walls which usually have no windows. Sometimes, they were built on the top of hill to make them easier to defend. Some of them were also placed near the entrance of harbors.

Having a kasbah built was a sign of wealth of some families in the city. Almost all cities had their kasbah, this building being something necessary for the city to survive. When colonization started in 1830, in northern Algeria, there were a great number of kasbahs that lasted for more than 100 years. Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution 1830 (MDCCCXXX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

The word casbah has a slightly different meaning^[clarify]. The Spanish word alcazaba is a cognate naming the equivalent building in Andalusia or Moorish Spain. For the San Diego music venue, see The Casbah. ... The Alcazaba in Malaga An alcazaba (from the Arabic for citadel al-qasbah, قصبة) is a Moorish fortification in Spain. ... Look up cognate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Andalusia (disambiguation). ... Al-Andalus is the Arabic name given the Iberian Peninsula by its Muslim conquerors; it refers to both the Caliphate proper and the general period of Muslim rule (711–1492). ...