Bir Mourad Raïs ( ar, بئر مراد رايس), formerly Birmendreïs, is a town in
Algiers Province
Algiers Province ( ar, ولاية الجزائر, ', ; french: wilaya d'Alger or ) is a province ( wilayah) in Algeria, named after its capital, Algiers, which is also the national capital. It is adopted from the old French department of Algier ...
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. The town is named in honor of the famous Ottoman admiral
Murat Raïs. It is the birthplace of French
Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser. , its population was 45,345.
Notable people
References
Communes of Algiers Province
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