Hissar ( ar, حصار, link=no) means fort or castle in Arabic, with variants adopted into Persian (hesar, hessar) and Turkish (hisar).
Hissar, Hisar and Hesar may refer to:
Places
Asia (South and Central)
India
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Hisar (city)
Hisar is a city, municipal corporation and administrative headquarters of Hisar district of Hisar division in the state of Haryana in northwestern India. It is located 161.2 km (100.16 mi) to the west of New Delhi, India's capital, ...
, a city in Haryana
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Hisar Airport
Hisar Airport , officially known as Maharaja Agrasen International Airport existing as domestic airport presently under upgrade by 30 March 2024 , is a DGCA-licensed public airport serving Hisar in Haryana state of India. It is located north ...
Hisar Urban Agglomeration
Hisar Urban Agglomeration is an extended area of the city of Hisar which includes the area under the Municipal Corporation of Hisar and the campus of Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University along with the Mini Secretariat. It is ...
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Hisar (Lok Sabha constituency)
Hisar Lok Sabha constituency (formerly Hissar) is one of the 10 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Haryana state in Northern India. This constituency covers the entire Hisar district and parts of Jind and Bhiwani districts.
Voter comp ...
Hisar district
Hisar district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana, India. Hisar city serves as the district headquarters. Hisar district has four sub-divisions that is, Hisar, Barwala, Hansi and Narnaud, each headed by an SDM. The district is also part of H ...
, a district in Haryana
* Hisar division, a division of Haryana
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
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Gissar Range
Hisar Range ( tg, Қаторкӯҳи Ҳисор; uz, Hisor tizmasi, russian: Гиссарский хребет; uk, Ґаторкугі Гісор; fa, رشتهکوه حصار; also known as Hissar, Hisor, or Gissar Range) is a mountain range ...
, mountain range in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
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Gissar Valley
Hisar (also Gissar, Gisar, Hissar, or Hisor) Valley in Tajikistan runs east–west along the southern slopes of Hisar Range and on the northern border of Khatlon Province. It is about 100 km long and up to 20 km wide in the middle, stretching from ...
Hesar, Afghanistan
Hesar is a village in Bamyan Province in central Afghanistan.
See also
*Bamyan Province
Bamyan Province ( prs, ولایت بامیان) also spelled Bamiyan, Bāmīān or Bāmyān is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located i ...
, a village
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Bala Hissar, Kabul
Bala Hissar () is an ancient fortress located in the south of the old city of Kabul, Afghanistan. The estimated date of construction is around the 5th century AD. Bala Hissar sits to the south of the modern city centre at the tail end of the Kuh- ...
, an ancient fortress in Kabul, Afghanistan
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Bala Hissar, Peshawar
Bala Hissar (Pashto/Urdu/Hindko language, Hindko: ), also spelt Bala Hisar, is a historic fortress located in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. First mentioned by 7th-century explorer Xuanzang, the fort was used as a royal residence for ...
, an ancient fortress in Peshawar, Pakistan
* Puli Hisar District in Baghlan Province, Afghanistan
Asia (Western) with Turkey
Iran
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Hesar, Iran (disambiguation) Hesar ( fa, حصار), also sometimes spelt as Hasar may refer to several places:
Ardabil Province
*Hesar, Ardabil
Bushehr Province
* Hesar, Bushehr
East Azerbaijan Province
* Hesar, Ahar, a village in Ahar County
* Hesar, Bostanabad, a village ...
, a list of places
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Hisar-e Sangi
Hesar-e Sangi ( fa, حصارسنگي, also Romanized as Ḩeşār-e Sangī; also known as Ḩeşār and Hisār) is a village in Fasharud Rural District, in the Central District of Birjand County, South Khorasan Province, Iran
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, a village
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Hisar Pain
Hesar-e Pain ( fa, حصارپائين, also Romanized as Ḩeşār-e Pā’īn, Ḩeşar Pā’īn, and Hisār Pāīn; also known as Ḩeşār-e Pā’īn va Qūrdlū) is a village in Tarrud Rural District, in the Central District of Damavand Co ...
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Tepe Hissar
Tepe Hissar (also spelled Tappeh Hesār) is a prehistoric site located in the village Heydarabad just south of Damghan in Semnan Province in northeastern Iran.
The site is notable for its uninterrupted occupational history from the 5th to th ...
Hisar Mosque
Hisar Mosque (Hisar Camii, meaning the "Fort Mosque") or Hisarönü Mosque (Hisarönü Camii) is a historical Mosque in İzmir, Turkey. It has been recorded to have been constructed by Ottoman governor Aydınoğlu Yakup Bey who was Bey of İzmir
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, an historic Mosque in İzmir
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Hisarlik
Hisarlik (Turkish: ''Hisarlık'', "Place of Fortresses"), often spelled Hissarlik, is the Turkish name for an ancient city located in what is known historically as Anatolia.A compound of the noun, hisar, "fortification," and the suffix -lik. The s ...
, an archaeological site believed to have been Troy
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Anadoluhisarı
Anadoluhisarı ( en, Anatolian Castle), known historically as Güzelce Hisar ("the Beauteous Castle") is a medieval Ottoman fortress located in Istanbul, Turkey on the Anatolian (Asian) side of the Bosporus. The complex is the oldest surviving ...
, a fortress on the Bosporus in Istanbul, Turkey
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Rumelihisarı
Rumelihisarı (also known as Rumelian Castle and Roumeli Hissar Castle) or Boğazkesen Castle (meaning " Strait-Blocker Castle" or literally "Throat-Cutter Castle") is a medieval fortress located in Istanbul, Turkey, on a series of hills on the ...
, a fortress in Istanbul
Europe (Balkans)
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Hisar Hill
The Hisar ( sr, Хисар) is a hill near the town of Leskovac in southern Serbia. A town's symbol, the hill is known for the remains of the large, fortified Bronze Age settlement and has been declared a nature park. The evidence confirm the alm ...
, a hill in southern Serbia
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Hisarya, Bulgaria
Hisarya ( bg, Хисаря , also known as ''Hisar'', ''Hissar'' or ''Hissarya'', formerly: Toplitsa) is a small resort town in Bulgaria, in Plovdiv Province.
Hisar means 'fort, castle' in Arabic. The word was adopted in Persian and Ottoman Turk ...
, a resort town
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Demir Hisar (town)
Demir Hisar ( mk, Демир Хисар ) (formerly Murgaševo until 1946) is a small town in North Macedonia. It is the seat of Demir Hisar Municipality. This small settlement has an absolute Macedonian ethnic majority. The name of the town tran ...
HISAR (surface to air missile system)
The Hisar (Turkish: "fortress") is a family of short, medium and long-range surface-to-air missile systems being developed by Roketsan and Aselsan since 2007. The missiles are developed by Roketsan, while most sensors and electronics are develop ...
, developed in Turkey
*Hughes Integrated Synthetic Aperture Radar (HISAR), used on the US-developed
RQ-4 Global Hawk
The Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk is a high-altitude, remotely-piloted surveillance aircraft of the 1990s–2020s. It was initially designed by Ryan Aeronautical (now part of Northrop Grumman), and known as Tier II+ during development. Th ...