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    Sidi Okba (Arabic: سيدي عقبة) is a commune in the Biskra Province, Algeria. It was named after the Muslim General Uqba ibn Nafi who died there in 683...
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    Sidi Okba Mosque (Arabic: مسجد سيدي عقبة, Masjid Sīdī ʻUqbah) is a historic mosque in Algeria, located in the village of Sidi Okba, near Biskra. The mausoleum...
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    the mosques built Muhammad. Al-Watiya Air Base in Libya is also known as "Okba ibn Nafa Air Base" after him. Extant records of most of the accounts describing...
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    high-quality Deglet Nour dates. Other localities include Lichoua, Sidi Okba, Sidi Khaled, El-Kantara and Ouled Djellal. The Biskra area has been inhabited...
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    Sidi Okba District is a district of Biskra Province, Algeria. The district has 4 municipalities: Sidi Okba Chetma El Haouch Aïn Naga In Sidi Okba there...
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  • Abbassi Madani (category People from Sidi Okba)
    the dispossessed Algerian youth. Madani was born in Diyar Ben Aissa, Sidi Okba, now in Biskra Province. In his youth he joined the National Liberation...
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    Octobre 20 Août 26 Avril 1958 El-Allaouia Ibn Rochd Kouicem Abdelhak Sidi Messaoud Sidi Okba Et-Tagtaguia Souk Ahras has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate...
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    identifiable with the stone ruins at the oasis adjacent to the village of Sidi Okba, Algeria. The Diocese of Tabuda (Tabudensis) is a suppressed and titular...
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    and is said to be one of the oldest mosques in Algeria after Sidi Okba Mosque and Sidi Ghanem Mosque [fr]. An inscription on the mosque's minbar (pulpit)...
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    period, causing the original structure to be narrowed. The Mosque of Sidi Okba near Biskra (present-day Algeria) belongs to a large complex built around...
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    novelist, and journalist was born on the 15 December 1910 in the village of Sidi Okba in the Biskra Province of Algeria. He grew up in Algeria and moved to...
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  • Vol. 2. Oxford University Press. p. 366. ISBN 9780195309911. Lafer, Ali. "Sidi 'Uqba (mosque, minaret and tomb)". Discover Islamic Art, Museum With No Frontiers...
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    were killed in this battle with 300 members of Okba's cavalry.[citation needed] He is buried in Sidi Okba in Algeria in the al-Shurafa cemetery with 300...
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    and his army at Tahouda, a small village located 5 km from the oasis "Sidi Okba". His body was buried in the mosque of the city that took his name. According...
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     Algeria Biskra Sidi Khaled Oasis 209 Wadi Djedi  Algeria Biskra Sidi Masmoudi Oasis 204 Wadi Ahmar Khadu  Algeria Biskra Sidi Okba Oasis 50 Wadi El...
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  • Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the Katiba Okba Ibn Nafaa. On the evening of 28 March 2015, in Sidi Aïch in the governorate of Gafsa, the National...
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    Montplaisant 05 : Bel Air 8th c. d. Ennasr النصر Derb ... 01 : Ennasr 02 : Sidi Okba 03 : El Karama 01 : Derb 02 : Saint-Antoine 03 : Karguentah 9th c. d....
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    de Sidi Ghanem de Mila, une histoire à écrire". www.elmoudjahid.com. Archived from the original on 30 August 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2017. "Sidi 'Uqba...
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    he met and befriended the Earl of Cardigan. In 1922, he traveled to Sidi Okba in Algeria, hoping to hunt the wild barbary sheep, but failed to find...
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    many photographs of landscapes and cities of south Algeria (El Kantara, Sidi Okba, Chetma, Tilatou, Tolga, Touggourt). The female members of the Ouled Naïl...
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    Aghlabids, the Fatimids, and the Zirids. The Mosque of Sidi Uqba, in the village of Sidi Okba (near Biskra), is reputedly the oldest Islamic monument...
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    many photographs of landscapes and cities of south Algeria (El Kantara, Sidi Okba, Chetma, Tilatou, Tolga, Touggourt ...). The members of the Ouled Naïl...
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    surroundings were water-logged. Islam in Libya List of mosques in Libya Sidi Okba Mosque, a mosque with a similar purpose and function الوصلي, عبد العزيز...
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    Sénia Gdyel Hassi Ben Okba Hassi Bounif Hassi Mefsoukh Mers El Hadjadj Mers El Kébir Misserghin Oran Oued Tlélat Sidi Ben Yebka Sidi Chami Tafraoui Algeria...
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  • M'Lili Upload Photo 07-003 wooden door of the mosque Architectural element Sidi Okba 34°45′19″N 5°54′24″E / 34.755274291122575°N 5.906719118356705°E / 34...
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    SB 17,072 Sidi M'Hamed Benaouda DZ.RE.SM 6,159 Sidi Moussa DZ.AL.SM 27,888 Sidi Naamane DZ.MD.SN 21,478 Sidi Naamane DZ.TO.SN 9,641 Sidi Okba DZ.BS.SO...
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    m high Mount Sidi Okba (جبل سيدي عقبة) 1,706 m high Mount Gourou (جبل قورو) 1,686 m high Oum El Guedour (أم القدور) 1,503 m high Kef Sidi Bouzid (كاف سيدي...
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    Naïl Sidi Okba Sidi Omar Ou El Hadj Sidi Ouadah Sidi Ouali Dada Sidi Ouboudaoud Sidi Oulhadj Amghar Sidi Ouriache Sidi Rabai Sidi Rached Sidi Saad Sidi Saada...
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  • Colombie) Elektra (ex- Soc. Général de Transportes Maritimes à Vapeur Sidi-Okba, later Italmar Princess Sissy) Elli (ex- Stamura, ex- Elsi, ex-Elli Toyas)...
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  • authorities on 11 June 1970. Following the US withdrawal, the base was renamed Okba Ben Nafi Airfield (seemingly after the legendary hero Uqba ibn Nafi) and...
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