Mascara, Algeria

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Mascara (

Mascara is an administrative, commercial and a market centre. Its trade is mostly centered on leather goods, grains, and olive oil, but it is especially famous for its good wine. It has good road and rail connections with other urban centres of Algeria.

• 1701: During the Regency of Algiers, Algerian built a military garrison in the town. Many Muslims with Andalucian origins were settled there by the Ottomans and Algerians.
• 1708: The Muslim tribes of Mascara led by the bey Mustapha Ben Youcef captured the city of
  Spaniards while they were busy in the War of the Spanish Succession
  .
• 1732: Spain regains control of Oran.
• 1790: Famine and sickness had begun to aggravate the situation in Oran when the bey of Mascara appeared before the town with 30,000 men. The Spanish commander held out till August 1791, when the Spanish government, having made terms with the bey of Algiers, was allowed to set sail for Spain with their guns and ammunition. The bey Mohammed took possession of Oran in March 1792, and made it his residence instead of Mascara.[1]

French invasion and early French rule

• 1832:
  Abd al-Qadir
  makes Mascara his headquarters.
• 1835: Mascara is destroyed by the French.
• 1841: The French establish full control over Mascara.

Algeria (sovereign state)

• August 18, 1994: An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the moment magnitude scale and having a maximum MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging) leaves 171 people dead in Mascara.^[2]

Twin towns/sister cities

Mascara is

• Bursa, Turkey^[3]
• Elkader, Iowa, United States
• Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic

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