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Mascara
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Place details
- Locality
- Mascara ⵎⵄⴻⵙⴽⴻⵔ معسكر
- Region
- معسكر Mascara ⵎⵄⴻⵙⴽⴻⵔ
- Country
- ⵍⵣⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ الجزائر
- Population
- 108,629
- Timezone
- Africa/Algiers
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Key facts
- Country
- Algeria
- Province
- Mascara Province
- District
- Mascara District
- Highest elevation
- 429 m (1,407 ft)
- Lowest elevation
- 0 m (0 ft)
- Total
- 108,629
- Time zone
- UTC+1 (+1)
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Mascara
- Population
- 108587
- Elevation
- 590
- Image
- Ville de Mascara مدينة معسكر - panoramio (1).jpg
- Licence plate code
- 29
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- Commons category
- Mascara, Algeria
- postal code
- 29000
- native label
- معسكر
- inception
- 1701-00-00
- P12749
- Ryazan Oblast
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Article
Mascara (Arabic: معسكر, romanized: Muʿaskar), also spelled Maskara, is the capital city of Mascara Province in Algeria. It has 150,000 inhabitants (2008 estimate). It was founded in the 10th century by the Banu Ifran, and is famous for being the hometown of Emir Abd al-Qadir, a leader of the Algerian resistance to early French colonial rule in the 19th century.
Mascara is an administrative, commercial and a market centre. Its trade is mostly centered on leather goods, grains, and olive oil, but it is especially famous for its good wine. It has good road and rail connections with other urban centres of Algeria. Relizane is 65 kilometres (40 miles) northeast, Sidi Bel Abbès 90 km (56 mi) southwest, Oran 105 kkm northwest and Saïda 80 km (50 mi) south.