The Role of the Laghouat Tribes in the Resistance to French Colonial Occupation: The Arbāʿ Tribes as a Case Study
Abstract
In this research titled as « Laghouat tribal resistance to the French occupation-the tribe of El-Arbae example- », we treat the resistance of the people of Laghouat, especially El-Arbae tribes, to the French occupation expansion in the region of Laghouat in particular, and in the so the east of Algeria in general through the resistance that the leader Bennasser Ben Chohra led against the French occupation. As well as the resistance of one of the region her oeswhois « Echerif Bouchoucha ».
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