Cheikh Bouamama or Shaykh Bu 'Amamah () led a popular resistance against French occupation in
Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...
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 Algi ...
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Abdelkader al-Jazairi
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Sherif Boubaghla
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Mokrani Revolt
The Mokrani Revolt (; ) was the most important local uprising against France in Algeria since the French conquest of Algeria, conquest in 1830.
The revolt broke out on March 16, 1871, with the uprising of more than 250 tribes, around a third of ...
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Algerian War
The Algerian War (also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence) ''; '' (and sometimes in Algeria as the ''War of 1 November'') was an armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (Algeri ...
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Massacre of Saïda (1881)
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1841 births
1908 deaths
People of French Algeria
Algerian rebels
Algerian independence activists
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