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

• 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