Hissar () 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 also known as Hissar is the administrative headquarters of Hisar district in the state of Haryana in northwestern India. It is located to the west of New Delhi, India's capital, and has been identified as a National Capital Region (Ind ...
Hisar (Lok Sabha constituency)
Hisar (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 district, Jind and Bhiwani district, Bhiwani districts.
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, of the lower house of the Parliament
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Hisar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Hisar Assembly constituency is one of the 90 Vidhan Sabha constituencies in Haryana state in northern India.
Overview
Hisar, constituency number 52, is one of the seven Assembly constituencies located in Hisar district. This constituency cover ...
, in the Haryana Legislative Assembly
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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 ...
, a district in Haryana
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Hisar division
Hisar Division is one of the six divisions of Haryana State of India. The division comprises the districts of Fatehabad, Hisar, Jind and Sirsa .Gissar Range
The Hisar Range, formerly the Gissar Range, is a mountain range in Central Asia, in the western part of the Pamir-Alay system, stretching over 200 km in the general east–west direction across the territory of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
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, 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 ...
, in Tajikistan
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Hisor
Hisor () or Hisar (, ''Gissar'') is a city in western Tajikistan, about 15 km west of Dushanbe. The city was the seat of the former Hisar District, and is part of the Districts of Republican Subordination. It lies at an altitude of 799–824 ...
Bala Hissar, Kabul
Bala Hissar () was 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 an historic fortress located in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. First mentioned by 7th-century explorer Xuanzang, the fort was used as a royal residence fo ...
, 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 (), 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 in Bostanabad ...
Tepe Hissar
Tepe Hissar (also spelled Tappeh Hesār) is an ancient Near Eastern
archaeological site in Semnan Province in northeastern Iran about 360 kilometers east of modern Tehran. It is located near the village Heydarabad two kilometers southeast of the ...
, prehistoric site
Turkey
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Hisar, Acıpayam
Hisar (also: ''Hisarköy'') is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Acıpayam, Denizli Province
Denizli Province () () is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey in Western Anatolia, on high ground above the Aegean c ...
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Hisar, Emirdağ
Hisarköy, colloquially called Hisar, is a neighbourhood of the town Davulga, Emirdağ District, Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey. Its population is 35 (2021).
It is situated in the middle of the site of ancient and Byzantine Amorium. The village ...
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Hisar Mosque
The Hisar Mosque (; 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
Troy (/; ; ) or Ilion (; ) was an ancient city located in present-day Hisarlik, Turkey. It is best known as the setting for the Greek myth of the Trojan War. The archaeological site is open to the public as a tourist destination, and was ...
, an archaeological site believed to have been Troy
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Anadoluhisarı
Anadoluhisarı (), known historically as Güzelce Hisar ("the Beauteous Fortress") is a medieval Ottoman fortress located in Istanbul, Turkey on the Anatolian (Asian) side of the Bosporus. The complex is the oldest surviving Turkish architectural ...
, a fortress on the Bosporus in Istanbul, Turkey
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Rumelihisarı
Rumelihisarı (also known as Rumelian Fortress and Roumeli Hissar Fortress) or Boğazkesen Fortress (literally 'strait-cutter fortress') is a medieval Ottoman Empire, Ottoman fortress located in Istanbul, Turkey, on a series of hills on the Europ ...
, a fortress in Istanbul
Europe (Balkans)
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Hisar Hill
The Hisar () 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 almost continuous ...
, a hill in southern Serbia
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Hisarya, Bulgaria
Hisarya ( , also known as ''Hisar'', ''Hissar'' or ''Hissarya'', formerly: Toplitsa) is a small town and a major spa resort in Plovdiv Province, central Bulgaria. The town is located at the southern foothills of the Sredna Gora mountain range fac ...
, a resort town
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Demir Hisar (town)
Demir Hisar ( ) (formerly Murgaševo until 1946) is a small town in North Macedonia. It is the seat of Demir Hisar Municipality.
Etymology
The name of the town comes from Ottoman Turkish ''Demir Hisar'' (Iron Fortress) when the settlement was p ...
HISAR (surface to air missile system)
Hisar (''Fortress'') is a family of Short range air defense, short, High to medium air defense surface-to-air missile systems being developed by Roketsan and Aselsan since 2007. The missiles are developed by Roketsan, while most sensors and elect ...
, 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, Unmanned aerial vehicle, remotely-piloted surveillance aircraft introduced in 2001. It was initially designed by Ryan Aeronautical (now part of Northrop Grumman), and known as Tier II+ d ...