A casbah or kasbah (Arabic: القصبة, romanized: al-qasaba), is a kind of medina (old city) or fortress.
Casbah and similar may refer to:
Notable casbahs
- Casbah of Algiers, in Algiers, Algeria
- Casbah of Dellys, in Dellys, Algeria
- Kasbah of Agadir, in Agadir, Morocco
- Kasbah An-Nouar, in Fez, Morocco
- Kasbah of Béja, in Béja, Tunisia
- Kasbah Boulaouane, in Boulaouane, Morocco
- Kasbah Cherarda, in Fez, Morocco
- Kasbah of Le Kef, in El Kef, Tunisia
- Kasbah Mahdiyya, near Kenitra, Morocco
- Kasbah of Marrakesh, in Marrakesh, Morocco
- Kasbah of Moulay Ismail, in Meknes, Morocco
- Kasbah of Tifoultoute, in Ouarzazate, Morocco
- Kasbah of Sfax, in Sfax, Tunisia
- Kasbah of the Udayas, in Rabat, Morocco
- Tamnougalt, in Tamnougalt, Morocco
- Telouet Kasbah, in Telouet, Morocco
Other uses
- Casbah City, a 2017 Algerian TV series
- The Casbah (music venue), in San Diego, US
- Casbah Coffee Club (also known as The Casbah), a former music venue in Liverpool, England
- Casbah Recording Studio, in California, US
- Casbah (film), a 1948 musical film
- Cloud access security broker (CASB) (sometimes pronounced "cas-bah"), security software for cloud computing
- Casbah is a roadhouse chain in Pretoria and Johannesburg, South Africa established in 1955
- Kasba Tadla, a town in Béni-Mellal Province, Morocco
- Rock the Casbah, a song by English rock band The Clash from their 1982 album Combat Rock
See also
- Kasba (disambiguation)
- "Rock the Casbah", a 1982 song by The Clash
- CASBAA, association for TV broadcast service providers in Asia
- Qasba, a Maltese unit of measurement equal to approximately 2.096m
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