Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine Cemetery

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Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine Cemetery (Arabic: مقبرة سيدي أمحمد بوقبرين) is a cemetery in the commune of Belouizdad in Algeria. The name relates to Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine.

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Sidi Garidi Cemetery

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El Madania

El Madania is a municipality in Algiers Province, Algeria. It is administratively part of Sidi M'Hamed district. Its municipal code is 1603 and postal code is 16075. It has a population of 51,404 as of the 1998 census, which gives it 15 seats in the PMA.

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Ministry of Health, Population and Hospital Reform

The Ministry of Health, Population and Hospital Reform is the health ministry of Republic of Algeria. It is located in El Madania, a municipality of Algiers. The Ministry is responsible for public health facilities and population monitoring. The Minister is a member of the Council of Ministers of Algeria, which reports to the President of Algeria as part of the executive branch of the government.

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Diar el Mahçoul

Diar el Mahçoul is a residential complex and district of Algiers, Algeria, split between the quarters of Belouizdad and El Madania. Diar el Mahçoul was developed by French modernist architect and urban planner Fernand Pouillon between 1953 and 1955. The Martyrs' Memorial, which houses the National Museum of El Mujahid, stands at the edge of the development. The structure, constructed in 1982, is one of the city's most recognizable buildings.

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Belouizdad, Algiers

Mohamed Belouizdad is a quarter of Algiers, Algeria in Algiers Province. The quarter was formerly known as Belcourt during the French colonisation period. It was renamed as Hamma-El Annasser after Algerian independence, before the present name Belouizdad was adopted in 1992 in honour of the Algerian militant and nationalist Mohamed Belouizdad who lived in the quarter. Mohamed Belouizdad Street and Hassiba Ben Bouali Street are the two main arteries for the quarter that also has a seashore stretch on the Mediterranean coast. Important places in Belouizdad include the Hamma National Library, the Botanical Garden Hamma, the Hamoud Boualem soft drinks factory and headquarters, the August 20, 1955 Stadium as well as Hotel Sofitel. The quarter also has a famous cave known as Cave Cervantes where the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes hid from the Turkish authorities but was recaptured when he famously attempted to flee back to Spain. Belouizdad is served by 4 stations of the Algiers Metro, namely Jardin d'essai Station, Hamma Station in Belouizdad itself and Aïssat Idir Station and 1er Mai Station in the nearby Sidi M'Hamed municipality. The area is also served by two aerial tramway systems, the Téléphérique d'El Madania, inaugurated in 1956, and Téléphérique du Mémorial inaugurated in 1987 linking it to the Botanical Garden and the Martyrs' Memorial in Algiers that oversees the quarter. The intermodal Les Fusillés Station at the eastern border of Belouizdad connects to all points east on the Algiers tramway. The quarter is also home to two football clubs, CR Belouizdad and OMR El Annasser

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History

In the place of this Muslim cemetery, in 1830 during the French conquest of Algeria, there was only the mausoleum of Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine and a few graves among the wild olive trees. It was then that the burials of the Muslim dead in Algiers were more and more numerous in the El Kettar cemetery from 1834, and in the Sidi M'hamed Cemetery. The latter began to be a Muslim necropolis only around 1850, when the cemeteries occupying the site of the streets of Tripoli, Larbi Ben Mhidi, Ali Boumendjel and Boulevard Debbih Cherif were destroyed. Originally surrounded by cacti and aloe vera, a perimeter wall was built to surrounded it at the start of the 20th century. The entrance gate, the minaret, the portico and the fountain were also built at this time.

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Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine Abderrahmane Djilali Ahmed Senhadji Aïssat Idir Ali Boumendjel Amina Belouizdad Hassiba Ben Bouali Larbi Zekkal Madani Abbassi Malek Bennabi Mohamed Bachir El Ibrahimi Mohamed Belouizdad Mohamed Lefkir Zoubir Bouadjadj