El Alia Cemetery () is a cemetery in the commune of Oued Smar, a suburb of

Algiers Algiers is the capital city of Algeria as well as the capital of the Algiers Province; it extends over many Communes of Algeria, communes without having its own separate governing body. With 2,988,145 residents in 2008Census 14 April 2008: Offi ...

, 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, 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, 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, important figure of the Algerian resistance movement * Krim Belkacem, 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, singer * Keltoum, Algerian actress * Larbi Ben M'hidi, revolutionary leader * Mohamed Benameur, football player * Ali Kafi, politician * Smain Lamari, 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, 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, Chief of

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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, 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 Thugny-Trugny,

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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, politician,

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of the

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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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Notable interments

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