Mascara, Algeria

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mascara is the capital city of Mascara Province, Algeria, in northwestern Algeria. It has 150,000 inhabitants. The name Mascara comes from the Arabic "Mother of Soldiers". Mascara was the capital city of Emir Abd al-Qadir, a leader of the Algerian resistance to early French colonial rule. 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. Mascara has good road and rail connections with other urban centres of Algeria.