Cheikh Bouamama or Shaykh Bu 'Amamah ( ar, الشيخ بوعمامة) led a popular resistance against French occupation in
Algeria
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from 1881 to 1908.
Cheikh Bouamama was a leader of the tribe
Awlad Sidi Shaykh.
The resistance that he led in the southwest of Algeria from 1881 to 1908..
The Algerian filmmaker Benamar Bakhti made the 1983 film ''L'Épopée de Cheikh Bouamama'' ("The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama").
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Invasion of Algiers in 1830
The invasion of Algiers in 1830 was a large-scale military operation by which the Kingdom of France, ruled by Charles X, invaded and conquered the Deylik of Algiers.
Algiers was annexed by the Ottoman Empire in 1529 after the capture of Algie ...
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Abdelkader al-Jazairi
Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine (6 September 1808 – 26 May 1883; ar, عبد القادر ابن محي الدين '), known as the Emir Abdelkader or Abdelkader El Hassani El Djazairi, was an Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggl ...
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Sherif Boubaghla
Sherif Boubaghla or Cherif Boubaghla (in Arabic: الشريف بوبغلة , ''the man with the mule'') (full name Muhammad Al-Amjad bin Abd Almalik محمد الأمجد بن عبد المالك) was an Algerian military resistance leader who led ...
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Mokrani Revolt
The Mokrani Revolt ( ar, مقاومة الشيخ المقراني, lit=Resistance of Cheikh El-Mokrani; ber, Unfaq urrumi, lit=French insurrection) was the most important local uprising against France in Algeria since the conquest in 1830.
The r ...
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Algerian War
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Massacre of Saïda (1881)
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1833 births
1908 deaths
Algerian rebels
Algerian independence activists
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