Sidi M'Hamed is a

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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 ...

, Algeria. It was named after its capital,

Sidi M'Hamed Sidi M'Hamed ( ar, سيدي امحمد) is a municipality in Algiers Province, Algeria. It is the seat of the district of the same name. Its municipal code is ''1602'' and postal code is ''16014'' and it has a population of 90,455 as of the 1998 ...

Municipalities

The district is further divided into four

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El Madania El Madania ( ar, المدنية) 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 ...

El Mouradia El Mouradia-El Golf ( ar, المرادية) is a municipality in Algiers Province, Algeria. It is administratively part of Sidi M'Hamed district. Its municipal code is ''1627'' and postal code is ''16035'' and it has a population of 29,503 as of ...

Alger Centre Alger Centre is a municipality in Algiers Province, Algeria. It is administratively part of Sidi M'Hamed district, and it has a population of 96,329 as of the 1998 census, which gives it 15 seats in the PMA. Name The name of the municipality i ...

Notable people

Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Gashtuli al-Jurjuri al-Azhari Abu Qabrayn (; died in 1793/1794), mostly known as Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine ( ar, سيدي محمد بو قبرين) was a Berber ash'ari alim'', founder of the Rahmaniyya Sufi order a ...

, Algerian berber theologian *

Lyès Deriche Lyes Derriche (, (born 1928 in Casbah of Algiers, Algiers, Algeria; died 2001 in El Madania, Algeria) was an Algerian politician. Algerian War Lyès Deriche, the son of Mouhamed Deriche, housed in his villa in the Algerian commune of Clos-S ...

, 20th-century leader of the Algerian national political movement against the French. *

Ahmed Mahsas Ahmed Mahsas (November 17, 1923 – February 24, 2013) was an Algerian militant in the nationalist movement against French Algeria. Early life Ahmed Mahsas was born on 17 November 1923 in Boudouaou, Kabylia (now Boumerdès). He grew up in the ...

, 20th-century leader of the Algerian national political movement against the French.

References

Districts of Algiers Province {{Algiers-geo-stub