Brézina (or Brezina,

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: بريزينة) is a

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El Bayadh Province El Bayadh (Arabic: ولاية البيض) is a province (''wilaya'') in Algeria, named after its capital El Bayadh. It is surrounded by mountains from the South, North, and Northeast of the state. History The province was created from Saïda Pro ...

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. It is the district seat of Brézina District and has a population of 8.536, which gives it 7 seats in the PMA. Its postal code is ''32170'' and its municipal code is ''3204''.

History

During

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years, it was called Brézina-El-Abiod and was united with nearby El Abiod Sidi Cheikh and had the postal code ''94105''. After the

Algerian Civil War The Algerian Civil War ( ar, rtl=yes, الْحَرْبُ الْأَهْلِيَّةُ الجَزَائِرِيَّةُ, al-Ḥarb al-ʾAhlīyah al-Jazāʾirīyah) was a civil war in Algeria fought between the Algerian government and various Is ...

, on February 28 an armed group massacred 20 families,

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s and their families. On the next day, it is reported that five more people were killed than the previous estimate. As a result of the massacre, 35

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s were killed in

and

Ghardaïa Province Ghardaïa ( ar, ولاية غرداية) is located in the north of the Algerian desert, and the headquarters of the state is the city of Ghardaia 600 km south of the capital Algiers, its total area is estimated at 24711 Km², its extensio ...

by the

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References

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Communes of El Bayadh Province {{ElBayadh-geo-stub