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Si-Mustapha

Coordinates: 36°43′29″N 3°36′55″E / 36.7247°N 3.6153°E / 36.7247; 3.6153
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Si-Mustapha
Commune and town
Country Algeria
ProvinceBoumerdès Province
Population
 (1998)
 • Total9,015
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)

Si-Mustapha is a town and commune in the Isser District of Boumerdès Province, Algeria. At the time of the 1998 census it had a population of 9,015.[1][needs update]

Previously named Blad Guitoune ("land of the tent"), it was renamed Félix-Faure in 1899 during the colonial period, after the former French president Félix Faure.[2] After independence in 1962, it was given the new name of Si Mustapha, after the nom de guerre of the ALN fighter Mohamed Saoudi, who died nearby in combat on 25 November 1958.[3]

A 4th-century octagonal mausoleum formerly found there was demolished in 1905.[4]

History

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Notable people

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  • Mohamed Aïchaoui (1921-1959), an Algerian journalist and resistant against French colonization.

Notes

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  1. ^ "Municipalities of Algeria". Statoids.[unreliable source?]
  2. ^ "Félix-Faure (Algérie)" (in French). Archives nationales d'outre-mer.
  3. ^ "La guerre de Libération dans la région de Si Mustapha, Legata, Koudiat El-Araïs, Zemmouri, Zaâtra (1954-1962), de Rabah Boumriche (review)". Liberté-Algérie (in French). Archived from the original on 13 February 2021.
  4. ^ Jean-Pierre Laporte (2013). "Le mausolée tardif de Blad Guitoun (Wilaya de Bou Merdès)". Ikosim (in French) (2): 91–108.


36°43′29″N 3°36′55″E / 36.7247°N 3.6153°E / 36.7247; 3.6153