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Mustapha Bouchelaghem
Mustapha Bouchelaghem was bey of the West (Mascara) in Ottoman Algeria in the early 18th century. In 1708 his forces captured Oran from Spain, which had held it since 1509, and he made it his capital. Spain retook the city in 1732, and the beys returned to Mascara until Oran was finally recovered in 1792.
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