Alcazar

Alcázar is a Spanish word meaning castle, palace or fortress, from Arabic القصر al qasr.

Alcázar or Alcácer (from Portuguese) may refer to:

• Alcácer do Sal, a city in Setúbal, Portugal.
• Alcázar, one of the palaces and fortresses in Spain called by this name.
• Alcázar de Colón, former residence of Christopher Columbus's son Diego in Santo Domingo.
• Alcázar de San Juan, a town in La Mancha, Spain.
• Alcazar (band), a Swedish europop/dance music group.
• Alcazar Hotel (disambiguation), historic hotels in Canada and the United States
• Alcazar: The Forgotten Fortress, a 1985 video game by Tom Loughry released for the ColecoVision console and home computers
• Siege of the Alcázar in the Spanish Civil War
• *El Alcázar, name derived from the above - a newspaper that expressed the views of the búnker, the extreme right that opposed any democratization, during the Spanish transition to democracy
• General Alcazar, the name of a character featured in many of the Tintin comic books
• Roberto Alcázar y Pedrín, a Spanish comic strip from the Franco era
• Alcazar (Paris) (or Alcazar d'Hiver), a Café-concert located in the Rue du Faubourg Poissonière, Paris.
• Alcazar d'Été, a Café-concert located in the Champs-Élysées, Paris

Cognate names:

• Alcàsser is the Valencian name of a Spanish city (province of Valencia)
• Alcocer derives from a diminutive of alcázar
• Alcazarquivir is the Spanish name of Ksar-el-Kebir, location of the battle of Al Kasr al Kebir
• Alcácer-Quibir is the Portuguese name of Al Kasr al Kebir, location of the battle of Al Kasr al Kebir

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