El Alia Cemetery () is a cemetery in the commune of

Oued Smar Oued Smar is a suburb of the city of Algiers in northern 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 ...

, a suburb of

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, Algeria. It was established in 1928, following the donation of a plot of land by its owner Hamza El-Alia before his departure to Mecca.

Notable interments

The cemetery comprises tombs of numerous Algerian notables and also has the graves of actors and actresses and other artists (opera singers, musicians, painters, sculptors, architects, writers, poets). It also includes the tombs of several scientists, academicians and sports people. Allied soldiers who died during the

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were also buried there, including men who were evacuated to Africa after being wounded during

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, and who died there. Commonwealth graves are maintained by the

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List

Emir Abdelkader Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhyi al-Din (6 September 1808 – 26 May 1883; '), known as the Emir Abdelkader or Abd al-Qadir al-Hassani al-Jaza'iri, was an Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggle against the French colonial invasion of ...

, military, political and religious leader, freedom fighter, writer, human rights advocate (body controversially reinterned from 1883 burial grounds in Damascus near his mentor Ibn Arabi's body in 1965) *

Ahmed Mahsas Ahmed Mahsas (; 17 November 1923 – 24 February 2013) was an Algerian Fighter 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 ...

, militant and politician *

Kateb Yacine Kateb Yacine (; 2 August 1929 or 6 August 1929 – 28 October 1989) was an Algerian writer notable for his novels and Play (theatre), plays, both in French language, French and Algerian Arabic, and his advocacy of the Berberism, Berber caus ...

, writer * Colonel Amirouche, revolutionary fighter *

Lalla Fatma N'Soumer Lalla Fatma N'Soumer (; 1830 – 1863) was an Algerian anti-colonial leader during 1849–1857 of the French conquest of Algeria and subsequent Pacification of Algeria. She led several battles against the French forces, until her capture i ...

, important figure of the Algerian resistance movement *

Krim Belkacem Krim Belkacem ( or ) (September 14, 1922 – October 18, 1970) was an Algerian revolutionary and politician who was a notable figure during the Algerian War. As vice-president of the GPRA, he was the sole signatory of the Évian Accords on the ...

, revolutionary fighter and politician *

Ferhat Abbas Ferhat Abbas (; ALA-LC: ; 24 August 1899 – 24 December 1985) was an Algerian politician who acted in a provisional capacity as the then yet-to-become independent country's Prime Minister from 1958 to 1961, as well as the first President of the ...

, pharmacist, writer and political leader *

Warda Al-Jazairia Warda Al-Jazairia (; born Warda Mohammed Ftouki (); 22 July 1939 – 17 May 2012) was an Algerian singer. She was well known for her Egyptian Arabic songs and music. Her name was sometimes shortened to just Warda ( meaning "rose") or as "The Alg ...

, singer * Keltoum, Algerian actress *

Larbi Ben M'hidi Mohammed Larbi Ben M'hidi (; 1923 – 4 March 1957), commonly known as Si Larbi, was an Algerian revolutionary and prominent figure during the Algerian War of Independence. He is one of the six founding members of the Algerian National Liberati ...

, revolutionary leader * Mohamed Benameur, football player *

Ali Kafi Ali Kafi (; ALA-LC: ''ʿAlī Kāfī''; 7 October 1928 – 16 April 2013) was an Algerian politician who was Chairman of the High Council of State and acting President from 1992 to 1994. Early life Ali Kafi was born in El Harrouch in 1928. C ...

, politician *

Smain Lamari Major General Smain Lamari (, 1941 – August 28, 2007) was the head of an Algerian intelligence service, the Department of Counter-Espionage and Internal Security. Along with Generals Mohamed Lamari (unrelated to him), Khaled Nezzar, La ...

, head of an Algerian intelligence service, the Department of Counter-Espionage and Internal Security * M'hamed Benguettaf, actor and playwright * Abderrezak Bouhara, politician *

Ahmed Ben Bella Ahmed Ben Bella (; 25 December 1916 – 11 April 2012) was an Algerian politician, soldier and socialist revolutionary who served as the head of government of Algeria from 27 September 1962 to 15 September 1963 and then the first president of ...

, socialist soldier, revolutionary and first

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Chadli Bendjedid Chadli Bendjedid (; ALA-LC: ''ash-Shādhilī bin Jadīd''; 14 April 1929 – 6 October 2012) was an Algerian military officer and politician who served as the third President of Algeria. His presidential term of office ran from 9 February 1979 ...

, politician and third

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colonel, military and politician, and second

* Djelloul Khatib, revolutionary fighter and public servant * Mahfoud Nahnah, politician * Mostefa Beloucif, military *

Ali Tounsi Ali Tounsi () (died February 25, 2010) was the Chief of Algeria's national police force between 1994 and 2010. He was shot dead in his office in Algiers by a senior police official, with whom he was arguing at the time. The official, said to be ...

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's national police force * Abdelmadjid Aouchiche, founder of DNC/ANP and former minister of housing * Mohamed Hardi, politician * Bachir Boumaza, politician *

Cherif Guellal Cherif Guellal (19 August 1932 – 7 April 2009) was an Algerian businessman and diplomat, who fought in the Algerian War, Algerian independence movement. He served as the Algerian Ambassador to the United States and the Algerian Ambassador ...

, businessman and diplomat * Lakehal Ayat, military general and politician * Chérif Belkacem, politician * Gaston Désiré Chatelain, military adjudant-chef buried in 1958 he was exhumed in 1959 and buried in

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. *

Abdelaziz Bouteflika Abdelaziz Bouteflika (; ; 2 March 1937 – 17 September 2021) was an Algerian politician and diplomat who served as the seventh president of Algeria from 1999 to his resignation in 2019. Before his stint as an Algerian politician, Bouteflika s ...

, politician and seventh

. *

Abdelkader Bensalah Abdelkader Bensalah (, 24 November 1941 – 22 September 2021) was an Algerian politician. He served as the President of the Council of the Nation, the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Algeria, between 2002 and 2019. After President ...

, politician,

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of the

Council of the Nation The Council of the Nation () is the upper house of the Algerian Parliament. It is composed of 144 members, 2/3 of which are elected indirectly and 1/3 of which are appointed by the president of Algeria. Abdelkader Bensalah was elected as Presid ...

and acting Head of State of Algeria.

References

External links

*
El Alia Cemetery
at Find a Grave
El Alia Cemetery at billiongraves.com
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