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Kasbah of Algiers

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Algeria
Date of Inscription: 1992
Criteria: (ii)(v)
Core zone: 60 ha
City and Wilaya (province) of Algiers
N36 47 00 E3 03 37
Ref: 565

Brief Description

The Kasbah is a unique kind of medina, or Islamic city. It stands in one of the finest coastal sites on the Mediterranean, overlooking the islands where a Carthaginian trading-post was established in the 4th century BC. There are the remains of the citadel, old mosques and Ottoman-style palaces as well as the remains of a traditional urban structure associated with a deep-rooted sense of community.

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