Bouzareah is a suburb of Algiers

Algiers

' is the capital and largest city of Algeria. According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban agglomeration was 2,135,630. In 2009, the population was about 3,500,000...

, the capital of Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

, North Africa

North Africa

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, and its eleventh district. It had a population of 69,200 people in 1998 and an altitude of over 600 meters AMSL. The city's name is Arabic

Arabic language

Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...

 and means "of the grain

GRAIN

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" or "from the grain". The embassies of Niger

Niger

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, Oman

Oman

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, and Mauritania

Mauritania

Mauritania is a country in the Maghreb and West Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest...

 are located there.

Coat of arms

The first quarter is red, the heraldic color of Africa with a tower to represent a fort located in the city. The second quarter is green, the color of Islam, of sinople

Sinople

Sinople was a term for a kind of red earth used as a pigment in antiquity.It can refer to:*sinople, also sinoper, a term for "red", and later "green" in heraldry, see Sinople...

 with a kouba to point out the koubbas of Sidi-Nouman inter alia. With the third district, sinople cypresses to point out the wooded solid mass which covered formerly all the "Bouzaréah". With the fourth district the crescent of Islam with the stars which refer to the Observatory of the Celestial Village on blue of France.

This coat of arms

Coat of arms

A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer. Thus the term is often stated as "coat-armour", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth...

 was made by Théo Bruand d' Uzelle in 1993.

Institutions

The city shelters several notable institutions:

• The Research center in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Geophysics (CRAAG, former Observatory of Algiers)
• The normal School for Teachers of Algiers-Bouzaréah, created by imperial decree on March 4, 1865
• The Tele Algerian Diffusion
• The broadcast transmitting station of the operator of mobile telephony Djezzy, subsidiary of Orascom Télécom Algeria, which is the largest telephone operator in Algeria.
• The Department of Sciences of Education - the University of Bouzaréah
• The Superior school of Bank
• The basilica Our Lady of Africa
  Our Lady of Africa
  Our Lady of Africa may refer to:*Notre Dame d'Afrique, a basilica in Algeria*See Titles of Mary for Our Lady of Africa, a devotional title of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ceuta, Spain...
  
  
• The forest of Baïnem

Asteroid

Frederic Sy

Frédéric Sy

Frédéric Sy was a French astronomer.He worked at the Paris Observatory from 1879 to 1887, and as the assistant astronomer at the Algiers Observatory from 1887 to 1918...

 was a French astronomer who published scientific articles from 1894 to 1918 about comets and asteroids. He worked at the astronomical observatory the Research center in Astronomy, Astrophysique and Geophysics (CRAAG, formerly the Observatory of Algiers) and was a colleague of François Gonnessiat

François Gonnessiat

François Gonnessiat was a French astronomer.He worked at the Observatory of Lyon. In 1889 he won the Lalande Prize for astronomy from the French Academy of Sciences; 1901 became director of the Quito Observatory for the purpose of making geodetic measurements...

. He discovered two asteroids, which he named:

• "858 El Djezaïr
  858 El Djezaïr
  858 El Djezaïr is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. El Djezaïr is Arabic for Algeria . It is one of the three largest members of the Leto family , along with 68 Leto and 236 Honoria, all of which are spectral type S.-External links:*...
  
  " (Arabic
  Arabic language
  Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
  
   for Algeria and Algiers) on May 26, 1916.
• "859 Bouzaréah
  859 Bouzaréah
  859 Bouzaréah is a minor planet orbiting the Sun, named after the Algerian town of Bouzaréah, where the Algiers Observatory was erected.-External links:*...
  
  " also in 1916.

Historical population

Year	Population
1954	15,600
1987	60,400
1998	69,200