The Mokrani Revolt was the most important local uprising against France in Algeria since the conquest in 1830.
Attack on Bordj Bou Arréridj by Cheikh Mokrani — Engraving by Léon Morel-Fatio, L'Illustration, 1871.]
Bou Mezrag El Mokrani, circa 1874. From Gabriel Esquer's historic iconography of Algeria since the 17th century until 1871, Alger 1930, board CCCXLIX, view 933.
Sequestration order from the extraordinary commissioner of the République, concerning Cheikh Mokrani's goods. Administrative poster, 1871.
1/75th-scale model of Prince Jérôme alias La Loire, on display at the Swiss Museum of Transport.
The Kingdom of Ait Abbas, also known as the Sultanate of Ait Abbas, was a modern Kabyle state, then a fief and a principality, controlling Lesser Kabylia in Kabylia and its surroundings from the 16th
Mokrani Revolt
…Sufi order. Cheikh Mokrani (full name el-Hadj-Mohamed el-Mokrani) and his brother Boumezrag (full name Ahmed Bou-Mezrag) came from a noble family – the Ait Abbas dynasty (a branch of the Hafsids of Béjaïa), the Amokrane, rulers, since the sixteenth century of the Kalâa of Ait Abbas in the Bibans and of the Medjana region…
Family tree of the Ait Mokran according to Louis Rinn (c. 1891)
Elements of Andalusi architecture in the Mausoleum of Sultan Ahmed
The troops of the Regency of Algiers allied to the kingdom of Ait Abbas marching towards Tlemcen
Sketch of a cannon from the time of Louis XIV, probably from the Djidjelli Expedition (1664), found at the Kalâa of Ait Abbas