उत्तरी अफ्रीका के कई शहरों की एक पुरानी या देशी तिमाही; तिमाही जिसमें गढ़ में स्थित है

Noun:

Kasbah,

kasbah's Usage Examples:

Bona (Arabic annaba, " the city of jujube trees"), which has passed through many vicissitudes, was built by the Arabs, and was for centuries a possession of the rulers of Tunis, who built the Kasbah in 1300.

The Kasbah (citadel) stands on a hill at the north-east of the town.

The town consists of a European quarter, with streets regularly laid out and fine houses, and the Arab town, with its kasbah or citadel, and tower-flanked walls pierced by three gates.

The Arabic invasion at the end of the 7th century destroyed the Byzantine towns, and the place became the haunt of pirates, protected by the Kasbah (citadel); it was built on the substructions of the Punic, Roman and Byzantine acropolis, and is used by the French for military purposes.

The kasbah was begun in 1516 on the site of an older building, and served as the palace of the deys until the French conquest.

The public buildings of chief interest are the kasbah, the government offices (formerly the British consulate), the palaces of the governor-general and the archbishop - all these are fine Moorish houses; the "Grand" and the "New" Mosques, the Roman Catholic cathedral of St Philippe, the church of the Holy Trinity (Church of England), and the Bibliotheque Nationale d'Alger - a Turkish palace built in 1799-1800.

They often end in a cul-de-sac. The principal street is the rue de la Kasbah, which leads up to the citadel by 497 steps.

The kasbah forms the apex of a triangle of which the quays form the base.

The city consists of two parts; the modern French town, built on the level ground by the seashore, and the ancient city of the deys, which climbs the steep hill behind the modern town and is crowned by the kasbah or citadel, 400 ft.

In the centre of the oasis is the old kasbah or citadel.

kasbah's Meaning':

an older or native quarter of many cities in northern Africa; the quarter in which the citadel is located

Synonyms:

quarter, casbah,

Antonyms:

front, multiply,