In Spanish, Alcazarquivir means exactly the same thing as Ksar El Kebir in Arabic!
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Ksar El Kebir, or Alcazarquivir in Spanish, is one of the oldest fortress towns in Morocco, originally fortified by the Almohads. At the time it was called Ksar Ketama, or Ksar Sanhaja, after the Berber tribes. It was one of the key issues in the confrontation between Morocco, Spain and Portugal. The Battle of the Three Kings took place nearby. Finally conquered by the Spanish in the 20th century, after the Rif war, it became Moroccan again in 1956.
