Bir Mourad Raïs ( ar, بئر مراد رايس), formerly Birmendreïs, is a town in
Algiers Province,
Algeria. The town is named in honor of the famous Ottoman admiral
Murat Raïs. It is the birthplace of French
Marxist
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philosopher
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Louis Althusser
Louis Pierre Althusser (, ; ; 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy.
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. , its population was 45,345.
Notable people
References
Communes of Algiers Province
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