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

  • Hisar (city), a city in Haryana
  • Hisar Airport in Hisar city, Haryana
  • Hisar Junction railway station
  • Deer Park, Hisar a park in Hisar city
  • Hisar Urban Agglomeration
  • Hisar (Lok Sabha constituency), of the lower house of the Parliament
  • Hisar (Vidhan Sabha constituency), in the Haryana Legislative Assembly
  • Hisar district, a district in Haryana
  • Hisar division, a division of Haryana

Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

  • Gissar Range, mountain range in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
  • Gissar Valley, in Tajikistan
  • Hisor, a city in Tajikistan
  • Hisor District, in Tajikistan

Afghanistan and Pakistan

  • Hesar, Afghanistan, a village
  • Bala Hissar, Kabul, an ancient fortress in Kabul, Afghanistan
  • Bala Hissar, Peshawar, an ancient fortress in Peshawar, Pakistan
  • Puli Hisar District in Baghlan Province, Afghanistan

Asia (Western) with Turkey

Iran

  • Hesar, Iran (disambiguation), a list of places
  • Hisar-e Sangi, a village
  • Hisar Pain, a village
  • Tepe Hissar, prehistoric site

Turkey

  • Hisar, Acıpayam
  • Hisar, Emirdağ
  • Hisar Mosque, an historic Mosque in İzmir
  • Hisarlik, an archaeological site believed to have been Troy
  • Anadoluhisarı, a fortress on the Bosporus in Istanbul, Turkey
  • Rumelihisarı, a fortress in Istanbul

Europe (Balkans)

  • Hisar Hill, a hill in southern Serbia
  • Hisarya, Bulgaria, a resort town
  • Demir Hisar (town), a town in North Macedonia

Other uses

  • Hesar (Iranian film)
  • HISAR (surface to air missile system), developed in Turkey
  • Hughes Integrated Synthetic Aperture Radar (HISAR), used on the US-developed RQ-4 Global Hawk drones

See also

  • Hesarak (disambiguation), places in Afghanistan and Iran