Name: Doucen
Address: Doucen, Maghreb

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Algiers

Algiers, which Ibn Battuta passed through on his way from the Maghrib to the East. According to Ibn Khaldun, Bulughin ibn Zirí ibn Manad al-Sanhaji founded it at his father's order and in his time; it is the one attributed to Banu Mazghanna on the sea coast, in the days of the Ubaydids at al-Qayrawan. It was the capital of naval jihad in North Africa in the sixteenth century; the brothers Aruj and Khayr al-Din Barbarossa entered it and governed it, and from it Khayr al-Din joined the Ottoman state after strengthening its fortifications

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