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Mohammed el-Kebir
Mohammed el-Kebir was bey of the Beylik of the West, the western province of the Regency of Algiers, from 1779 to 1797. He besieged Spanish-held Oran and took possession of it in 1792, after Spain agreed to leave following the earthquake of 1790, and made it his capital. He built mosques and other works in the city and extended Algerian authority over the western tribes.
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