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Sidi-Bel-Abbès

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Sidi-Bel-Abbès

Walled city in Algeria, 75 km/47 mi south of Oran; population (1998 est) 217,100. It trades in wheat, tobacco, and alfalfa. Because of its strategic position, it was the headquarters of the French Foreign Legion from 1842 until 1962, when the newly independent Algeria required the withdrawal of the French.



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