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词条 Ksar
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  1. Related terms

  2. Architecture

  3. Places named Ksar

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. External links

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Ksar, plural ksour (Maghrebi Arabic: قصر qṣer, plural qṣur; Berber: aghrem or ighrem, plural: igherman) is the North African term for "Berber castle", possibly loaned from Latin castrum. The term generally refers to a Berber fortified village.

Related terms

The counterpart of Maghrebi ksar in literary Arabic, qaṣr, means "castle" or "palace"[1] and it is found in this form elsewhere in the Muslim world.

The Berber (Amazigh) original word for "ksar" used in North Africa by the Berber-speaking populations is aghrem (singular) or igherman (plural). In the Maghreb, the term has a more general meaning of "fortified village,"or "fort". The Berber word igherman might be a cognate word, with an identical meaning, with the word Garamantes, which is the name of the ancient Berber city-states in modern-day Libya.

Architecture

Ksour in the Maghreb typically consist of attached houses, often having collective ghorfa (granaries) and other structures like a mosque, bath, oven, and shops. Ksour / igherman are widespread among the oasis populations of North Africa. Ksars are sometimes situated in mountain locations to make defense easier; they often are entirely within a single, continuous wall. The building material of the entire structure is normally adobe, or cut stone and adobe. The idea of the ksar as a granary is a confused notion of two things, the granary itself, found within a ksar, and the ksar, which is a village, normally with granaries within it. Ksars form one of the main manifestations of Berber architecture.

Places named Ksar

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The word is part of place names across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, — the region called the Maghreb; and is particularly prevalent on the Saharan side of the various ranges of the Atlas Mountains and the valley of the Draa River.

  • Ksar es-Seghir, Moroccan stronghold in the Straits of Gibraltar, between Tangier and Ceuta
  • Ksar el-Kebir, location of the Battle of Alcácer Quibir, influenced Moroccan, Portuguese and Spanish history
  • Ksar Nalut, Libya
  • Ksar Ouled Soltane, Tunisia

See also

  • Maghreb placename etymology
  • Alcázar (also Alcácer or Alcasser)
  • Ghorfa
  • Ribat

References

1. ^Hans Wehr, J M. Cowan. A dictionary of modern written Arabic. Third Edition. Ithaca, N.Y.: Spoken Language Services. p. 768.

External links

{{Commons category|Ksour}}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20100513091209/http://ksour-tunisiens.com/ www.ksour-tunisiens.com] – complete documentation of all ksour of southern Tunisia, Herbert Popp & Abdelfettah Kassah
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