casbah
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- noun
- /ˈkæz.bɑː/
- On Sunday, October 9, 2011, we drove to the casbah, the oldest part of Algiers dating back to the Ottoman era.
- Casbah rocks
- Welcome to the Casbah
- the old Casbah
Examples
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Sidi N takes us on a tour of an old, nearly vacant casbah and an abandoned Jewish quarter.
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Now we must watch our steps, in every sense of the word, as we wind our way to the casbah.
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So what's happening with the casbah this week?
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Frost will be meeting a group of us here... and then walking through the casbah.
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Seen from a bird's eye view, the Casbah is a great staircase.
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The grand socco is the gateway to the Medina where you could find the Casbah, which means fortress by the way.
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Known for its tight and winding streets, the Casbah, or Muslim section of the city, presented perfect territory for asymmetrical urban warfare amid its population of 80,000 Algerians.
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Inside the casbah, narrow streets followed curving paths, guiding the traveller through whitewashed buildings.
Synonyms
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An old walled part of a North African city with narrow streets
Surface Forms
Etymology
Casbah comes from the Arabic qasaba, which meant 'citadel' or 'fortress', the strong centre of a town, so today casbah means the old, often fortified, part of a North African city.