Qasr
Qasr may refer to:
- A castle in Middle Eastern countries (from Latin castrum, via Arabic)
Qasr may also refer to:
Places
- Qasr, Fariman, a village in Fariman County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
- Qasr, Kerman, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
- Qasr, Mashhad, a village in Mashhad County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
- Qasr Ahmed, the port for the Libyan city of Misurata
- Qasr al Abd, a large ruin in western Jordan
- Qasr al-Hosn, the oldest stone building Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Qasr alheer algharbi, a castle in Syria
- Qasr alheer alsharqi, a castle in Syria
- Qasr Amra, a desert castle in Jordan
- Qasr Azraq, a desert castle in Jordan
- Qasr ibn Wardan, a castle in Syria
- Qasr Ibrim, an archeological site in Lower Nubia
- Qasr Kharana, desert castle in Jordan
- Qasr Libya, a town in Libya
- Qasr prison, a prison in Tehran, Iran
- Qasr-e-Shirin County, a county in Kermanshah Province, Iran
- Umm Qasr, a city in Iraq
Art, entertainment, and media
- Sayyidat al-Qasr (1958), an Egyptian romance film
Battles
- Battle of Umm Qasr, the first military confrontation in the Iraq War
See also
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- Ksar (North African form of the word)
- Alcázar (cognate Spanish term; also Alcácer or Alcàsser)
- Alcazar (disambiguation)
- Maghreb placename etymology
- Qasr is a common element in Iranian place names; see All pages with titles containing Qasr
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