Muaskar
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معسكر ⵎⵄⴻⵙⴽⴻⵔ Muaskar |
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| Coordinates | 35 ° 24 ' N , 0 ° 8' E | ||
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| Country | Algeria | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | DZ-29 | ||
| Residents | 108,587 (2008) | ||
Muaskar ( Arabic معسكر, DMG Muʿaskar , tamazight ⵎⵄⴻⵙⴽⴻⵔ Mɛesker ; former name Mascara ) is a city in Algeria in the province of the same name on the Hobra River. The city has 108,587 inhabitants (2008 census).
history
The oldest fossils of the genus Homo discovered in North Africa to date have been recovered 20 kilometers east of Muaskar . They come from a sand pit near Tighénif (formerly: Ternifine), where they were excavated between 1954 and 1956. There are three lower jaws (archive number Tighénif 1 to 3) and several individual teeth that are attributed to Homo erectus and were initially called Atlanthropus mauritanicus .
In the 19th century, Muaskar was the capital of Algeria under Abd el-Kader . From 1848 until Algeria became independent in 1962, Mascara was the capital of the arrondissement of the same name in the Oran department . On August 18, 1994, Muaskar was hit by an earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale. 171 residents were killed.
Twin cities
Sister cities of Muaskar are
Born in Muaskar
- Abd el-Kader (1808–1883), Algerian freedom fighter
- Lucien Perpère (1912–1996), French football player, coach and non-fiction author
- Mahi Khennane (* 1936), former Algerian-French football player and coach
- Alain Afflelou (* 1948), French optician and businessman
- Lakhdar Belloumi (* 1958), former Algerian soccer player and soccer coach
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ City population
- ^ Jean-Jacques Hublin : Northwestern African Middle Pleistocene hominids and their bearing on the emergence of Homo sapiens. In: Lawrence Barham, Kate Robson-Brown: Africa and Asia in the Middle Pleistocene. Western Academic & Specialist Press Ltd, Bristol 2001, pp. 104-105. ISBN 978-0953541843 , full text (PDF; 2.4 MB) ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Algerian Ministry of the Interior ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
