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Bou Noura
Bou Noura is one of the five fortified Ibadi towns of the Mzab valley in the Algerian Sahara, built on a rocky outcrop near Ghardaïa in the 11th century. Its name means 'the luminous one'. It is part of the M'zab Valley World Heritage Site.
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