Issers is a

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Boumerdès Boumerdès ( ar, بومرداس; Kabyle: Bumerdas; formerly ''Rocher Noir'') is the capital city of Boumerdès Province, Algeria. It is located on the Mediterranean Sea. It had a population of 28,500 in 1998 and 15,000 in 1987. Boumerdès is a s ...

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. It was named after its capital, Isser.

Municipalities

The district is further divided into 4

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: * Isser *

Si Mustapha Si-Mustapha is a town and commune in the Isser District of Boumerdès Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 9,015. Previously named Blad Guitoune ("land of the tent"), it was renamed Félix-Faure in 1899 during th ...

* Chabet El Ameur * Timezrit

History

French conquest

* First Battle of the Issers (1837)

Algerian Revolution

Salafist terrorism

* 2008 Issers bombing (19 August 2008)

Zawiya

* Zawiya Thaalibia

Notable people

Sidi Abder Rahman El Thaelebi Abdul-Rahman al-Tha'alibi ( ar, أبو زيد عـبـد الـرحـمـن بن مـخـلـوف الـثـعـالـبـي, Abū Zayd ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Makhlūf ath-Tha‘ālibī) (1384 CE/785 AH – 1479 CE/875 AH), was an Arab Schol ...

, Algerian Islamic scholar *

Mohamed Aïchaoui Mohamed Aïchaoui (29 January 1921 - 1959) was an Algerian journalist and militant in the nationalist movement against French Algeria. Aïchaoui wrote the ''Declaration of 1 November 1954'', the National Liberation Front's first appeal to the A ...

, Algerian journalist and resistant against French colonization. *

Raïs Hamidou Hamidou ben Ali , known as Raïs Hamidou (), or Amidon in American literature, born around 1770 in Algiers, and died on June 17, 1815, near Cape Gata off the coast of southern Spain, was an Algerian corsair. He captured up to 200 ships during hi ...

, Algerian privateer. * Ali Laskri, Algerian politician.

References

Districts of Boumerdès Province {{Boumerdès-geo-stub