El Alia Cemetery Explained

El Alia Cemetery
Native Name Lang:	FR
Established:	1928
Location:	Algiers
Country:	Algeria
Coordinates:	36.7197°N 3.1647°W

El Alia Cemetery (Arabic: مقبرة العالية |translit=Maqbarat al-ʻĀlīyah) is a cemetery in a suburb of Algiers in the commune of Oued Smar in Algeria the result of the donation in 1928 of a 78 hectares (193 acres) plot of land by its owner called "El Alia" means in Arabic which is high, but came from the surname of the donor of the land in 1928, Hamza El-Alia before her departure to mecca .^[1]

History

It 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 North African Campaign were also buried there, including men who were evacuated to Africa after being wounded during Operation Husky, and who died there. Commonwealth graves are maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Notable interments

• 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, writer
• Colonel Amirouche, revolutionary fighter
• Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, important figure of the Algerian resistance movement
• Krim Belkacem, revolutionary fighter and politician
• Ferhat Abbas, 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, socialist soldier, revolutionary and first President of Algeria
• Chadli Bendjedid, politician and third President of Algeria
• Houari Boumedienne colonel, military and politician, and second President of Algeria
• Djelloul Khatib, revolutionary fighter and public servant
• Mahfoud Nahnah, politician^[2]
• Mostefa Beloucif, military^{[3] [4]}
• Ali Tounsi, Chief of Algeria's national police force
• Abdelmadjid Aouchiche, founder of DNC/ANP and former minister of housing^{[5] [6]}
• 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, France.^[7]
• Abdelaziz Bouteflika, politician and seventh President of Algeria.^{[8] [9]}
• Abdelkader Bensalah, politician, President of the Council of the Nation and acting Head of State of Algeria.^[10]

See also

• Cemeteries of Algiers

External links

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

Notes and References

1. http://www.lesoirdalgerie.com/articles/2009/09/15/article.php?sid=88575&cid=2 Le Soir Algerie
2. Web site: KUNA : Mahfoud Nahnah laid to final resting - Politics - 20/06/2003 . 2023-08-21 . www.kuna.net.kw.
3. Web site: Le général Beloucif inhumé hier au cimetière d'El-Alia Décédé jeudi à l'âge de 70 ans – Liberté Algérie, Quotidien national d'information . Liberte-algerie.com . 2014-03-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140303215130/http://www.liberte-algerie.com/actualite/le-general-beloucif-inhume-hier-au-cimetiere-d-el-alia-decede-jeudi-a-l-age-de-70-ans-128707 . 2014-03-03 .
4. Web site: Confidences du général-major Beloucif – Algeria-Watch . 2023-08-21 . algeria-watch.org.
5. Web site: Abdelmadjid Aouchiche, le fondateur de la DNC-ANP, n'est plus Un parcours riche en expériences – Liberté Algérie, Quotidien national d'information . Liberte-algerie.com . 2014-03-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140303215012/http://www.liberte-algerie.com/actualite/abdelmadjid-aouchiche-le-fondateur-de-la-dnc-anp-n-est-plus-un-parcours-riche-en-experiences-145409 . 2014-03-03 .
6. Web site: Hewlett . K. . 2002 . Former APA CEO Passes Away at Age 86. . 2023-08-21 . PsycEXTRA Dataset.
7. Web site: MémorialGenWeb complementter.php . Memorial-genweb.org . 2014-03-25.
8. News: Algeria buries former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Al Jazeera. 2021-09-19. 2021-09-20.
9. News: Algeria gives disgraced ex-leader Bouteflika 3-days mourning . Associated Press . 2021-09-18 . 2021-09-18.
10. News: Abdelkader Bensalah inhumé au cimetière d'El-Alia. Abdelkader Bensalah buried in El-Alia cemetery. Algérie Presse Service. 23 September 2021. 23 September 2021. fr.