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    Medjana is a town and commune (municipality) in Bordj Bou Arréridj Province, Algeria. It is the (approximate) location the ancient city and bishopric...
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    In the seventeenth century, its chiefs took the title of sheikh of the Medjana, but were still described as sultans or kings of the Beni Abbés. At the...
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  • Middle English literature. All these forms stem from Common Germanic *Meðjana-garðaz, a compound of *meðjanaz ("middle") and *garðaz ("yard, enclosure")...
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    the sixteenth century of the Kalâa of Ait Abbas in the Bibans and of the Medjana region. In the 1830s, Cheikh Mokrani's father Ahmed El Mokrani (d. 1853)...
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  • Medjana District is a district of Bordj Bou Arréridj Province, Algeria. The district is further divided into 4 municipalities: Medjana El Achir Hasnaoua...
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    Sidi-Ben-Thiour) Vanariona (ruins of Ksar-Tyr?) Vannida Vardimissa (near Medjana) Villa Nova, Mauritania Vissalsa (on the Oued-Melah river?) Voncaria (ruins...
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    expedition of Sultan Abdelaziz of Kalaa, which had destroyed the forts of Medjana and Bordj Bou Arreridj, in order to annihilate his influence. On the second...
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    (District-municipality) Bordj Ghedir Bordj Zemmoura Djaâfra El Hamadia Mansourah Medjana Ras El Oued Achabou Aïn Taghrout Aïn Tesra Belimour Ben Daoud Bir Kasdali...
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  • the goddess Freyja in Old Norse texts. See Fólkvangr and Neorxnawang. *Meðjana-garðaz 'middle-enclosure' OE middan-geard, OS middil-gard, OHG mitti-gart...
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    laborer who lived with his parents and five siblings, burned himself in Medjana on 28 January over employment and housing issues. He died the following...
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