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MASCARA , See also:chief See also:town of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Oran, See also:Algeria, 6o m. S.E. of Oran. It lies 1800 ft. above the See also:sea, on the See also:southern slope of a range forming See also:part of the Little See also:Atlas Mountains, and occupies two small hills separated by the See also:Wad Tudman, which is crossed by three See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone See also:bridges. The walls, upwards of two See also:miles in See also:circuit, and strengthened by bastions and towers, give the See also:place a somewhat imposing
See also:appearance. Mascara is a town of the See also:French colonial type, few vestiges of the Moorish See also:period remaining. Among the public buildings are two mosques, in one of which Abd-el-Kader preached the See also:jihad. The town also contains the usual establishments attaching to the seat of a sub-See also:prefect and the centre of a military subdivision. The See also:principal See also:industry is the making of See also:wine, the See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white wines of Mascara being held in high repute. There is also a considerable See also:trade in grains and oil. A See also:branch railway eight miles See also:long, connects Mascara with the See also:line from the seaport of Arzeu to See also:Ain Sefra. See also:Access is also gained by this line to Oran, See also:Algiers, &c. Pop. (Igoe') of the town, 18,989; of the See also:commune, which includes several villages, 22,934; of the arrondissement, comprising eleven communes, 190,154.
Mascara (i.e. " See also:mother of soldiers ") was the See also:capital of a See also:Turkish beylik during the See also:Spanish occupation of Oran from the 16th to the See also:close of the 18th See also:century; but for the most of that period it occupied a site about two miles distant from the See also:present position. On the removal of the See also:bey to Oran its importance rapidly declined ; and it was an insignificant place when in 1832 Abd-el-Kader, who was See also:born in the neighbourhood, See also:chose it as the seat of his See also:power. It was laid in ruins by the French under See also:Marshal See also:Clausel and the See also:duke of See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans in 1835, the See also:amir retreating See also:south. Being reoccupied by Abd-el-Kader in 1838, Mascara was again captured in 1841 by Marshal Bugeaud and See also:General See also:Lamoriciere.
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