Kasbah
See also: Kasbah (homonymy)
In the countries of North Africa, a kasbah - or kasbah - indicates a Citadelle. For example: the Kasbah of Oudaïa, with Reduction (Morocco).
By extension, the word also indicates the historical heart - strengthened or not - of a town of North Africa. In this second meaning, the word is more or less Synonyme with Médina .
Etymology
The kasbah term comes from the Arab word “kasabah” which means “reed”. This material was used formerly, for its ergonomic and economic properties, in the construction of the roofs as an heat insulator (against heat, the cold and moisture). Substituent with wood, this material had known a very broad use in particular in old the Médina S generally built in edge of the rivers or the rivers where this plant abounded, so much so that the lanes of old the médinas were covered by roofs in reed. Currently, this material, become rare, is replaced more and more by plates of corrugated plastic which disfigure the esthetics of the “souikas” (traditional lanes commercial) of the historical médinas of Marrakech, Fez, Taroudant, etcIn addition, the word “Kasbah” tends to extend to all kinds of Maghrebian historical dwellings to such ensign that it this very day is applied, wrongly, with the “Ksour S” of the South of Morocco (Kasbah celebrates it Has Benhadou for example) whose authentic name is “IGHREM” which means into Berber “home” or “dwelling”. When several kasbahs form a village, that is called a “Ksar”. In general, it shelters populations of extremely various origins. The more one goes towards the south, the more this mode of habitat is usual.
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