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Cheb

Industrial town (textiles) in western Bohemia, in the Czech Republic, on the River Ohře near the German border, 145 km/91 mi west of Prague; population (2001) 32,900. The town has a 13th-century church and was formerly a strategic fortress.

Cheb Castle was built by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in the 12th century on the site of a Slav fort. The German general Albrecht Wallenstein was assassinated in Cheb 1634 during the Thirty Years' War. Before World War II, Cheb was the centre of the Sudeten German movement.
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In 1994 a young man named Cheb Hasni as shot and killed outside the home he shared with his parents in the Algerian port city of Oran.
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He and Algerian musician Cheb Mami joined forces for their latest smash hit, "Desert Rose," a haunting blend of two cultures that brought Arabic music to the top of the U.
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Popular Berber singers, such as Cheb Hasni and Lounes Matoub were denounced as "the enemy of God, one of the symbols of depravation and debauchery in the Kabylie region.
CENTRIFUGAL TENDENCIES IN THE ALGERIAN CIVIL WAR by Wiktorowicz, Quintan / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
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