casbah
Britishnoun
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She was arrested at a hideout in the casbah in 1957 but freed five years later, when Algeria declared independence in 1962, sparking the mass exodus of Europeans from the country.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2021
Soldiers bound up the steps of the casbah, their footfalls echoed by the up-and-down rattlings of Ennio Morricone’s score.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2016
Outside his window lies a whirl of cheap goods, dingy liquor stores and panhandlers, but Mr. Parker is tranquil, his apartment a luminous casbah of exotic décor.
From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2015
Clashes broke out on Wednesday near government offices in the old city, or casbah.
From Reuters • Jan. 27, 2011
The building is now called the casbah, and used as a large barrack; outside are the Moorish houses, and the chief part of the Moorish population.
From Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia by Windham, W. G.
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