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    Mitidja, (Arabic: متيجة, Berber: Mettijet ⵎⴻⵜⵙⵉⵛⵝ) is a plain stretching along the outskirts of Algiers in northern Algeria. It is about 100 km (62 mi)...
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    against the Algerian resistance in the Mitidja plains. On 24 February, the French met Algerian resistance on the Mitidja plains, and pushed towards the city...
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    in the countryside of the Mitidja region and took upon themselves the task of confronting the French occupation. The Mitidja is a large plain surrounding...
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    rebels affiliated with Emir Mustapha (1814–1863) in the Algerian Sahel and Mitidja. Indeed, the Emir Mustapha organized from his stronghold of Médéa in the...
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    Pierre Château-Jobert [fr] Robert Martel aka the chouan de la Mitidja ("chouan of the Mitidja") Captain Pierre Sergent Chief of Staff Lieutenant Daniel Godot...
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  • started a campaign against France, and the tribes loyal to France in the Mitidja plains. The campaign was initially extremely successful, and caused several...
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    triggering a land rush. Clauzel recognized the farming potential of the Mitidja Plain and envisioned the large-scale production there of cotton. As governor-general...
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  • chosen as its site because of its location at the heart of the fertile Mitidja plain, following a narrative according to which the region prosperous agriculture...
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  • the Mitidja plain in the medieval period, and came to rule Algiers and the towns around it from 1204 to 1516. The Thaaliba first reached the Mitidja plain...
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  • Eastern Kabylie[fr] (Kabylie of Collo, Kabylie of the Kutama) The M'zab Mitidja Annaba region The Saoura Titteri The Tell[fr] Tidikelt[fr] Trara Mountains...
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    Algeria's population—and its suburbs now cover most of the surrounding Mitidja plain. Algiers also played a pivotal role in the Algerian War (1954–1962)...
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    des voix, Le Monde, 29 September 2005 (in French) En Algérie, dans la Mitidja, ni pardon ni oubli Archived 29 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine, Le Monde...
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  • Bahia Rachedi (Arabic: بهية راشدي; born 25 September 1948 in Mitidja, Algeria) is an Algerian actress. She has appeared in many plays, films and television...
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    sea, at the base of the Tell Atlas, on the southern edge of the fertile Mitidja Plain, and the right bank of the Oued el kebir outflow from the Chiffa...
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    Following the Fall of Algiers, the French started encroaching on the Mitidja region surrounding the city. Initially defeating the forces of Mostéfa...
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  • Uarsenis, Madiyya (Médéa) and Mitidja c. 1190-1126 and died in 1126 at the hands of Yahya Ibn Ghaniya, who occupied Mitidja. Mandil II had several sons...
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  • Kabyle resistance of Abdelkader against France. Following the retreat from Mitidja, Ahmed bin Salem made the strategic decision to fortify the mountains of...
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  • invented stories. Zaphira is said to be from illustrious Arab families in Mitidja. In 1510, she was the wife of Selim al-Toumi and the mother of their twelve-year-old...
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    towards Tunis with a caravan on his Hajj journey and traveled to Béjaïa from Mitidja, a plain near Algiers. The Djurdjura National Park is a protected area...
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    Abd al-Qadir attacked the French as they were colonizing the Plains of Mitidja and routed the invaders. In response the French officially declared war...
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    Algiers Province. Its inhabitants are called Rouibéens. Capital of Oriental Mitidja, of agricultural vocation, Rouïba became an industrial city after the Second...
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  • Robert Martel (5 March 1921 - 21 December 1997), nicknamed "the Chouan of Mitidja", was a French-Algerian farmer, counter-revolutionary French nationalist...
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  • vs. ES Collo Derby of Annaba: USM Annaba vs. Hamra Annaba Derby de La Mitidja: USM Blida vs. WA Boufarik vs. RC Arbaa JS Kabylie-ES Sétif rivalry: JS...
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    Ma'qil forefather. This sub-tribe settled in a region close to Algiers, the Mitidja plain. They came to rule Algiers from 1204 to 1516 until the Ottomans took...
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    of Algeria, initially at the Mouzaia Pass action (March 1836), then at Mitidja (September 1836) and the siege of Constantine (1837). From 1843-44 either...
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    are the gentle hills extending 100 kilometers westward from Algiers; the Mitidja Plain, which was a malarial swamp before being cleared by the French; and...
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    from modest families, he from Lyon workers, she from peasants from the Mitidja. When Maurice was born, his father was commander of the gendarmerie brigade...
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    focused on the pursuit of Emir Abdelkader (in the Titteri massif south of Mitidja first, and then in the region of Orania), could not ignore that Algiers...
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  • surveillance post called Bordj El Hamar on a promontory overlooking the plain of Mitidja, particularly on the main road from Alger to Blida. The rural commune of...
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    elevation of 410 m (1,345 ft), overlooking the western Gulf of Algiers and the Mitidja Plain, and facing the Khachna Mountains to the east and the Titteri Mountains...
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