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Bab el-Oued
Bab el-Oued is a neighbourhood in Algiers, the capital of Algeria, along the coast north of the city centre. It gained notoriety during the leadup to the Algerian Civil War (which broke out in 1992) as a stronghold of the Islamic Salvation Front, FIS.
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