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El Harrach

municipality of Algeria

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ1021018 ↗
Source-derived summary

El Harrach (Berber languages: ⵍⵃⴻⵔⵔⴰⵛ, romanized: Lḥerrac, Arabic: الـحرّاش, romanized: Alḥrrāsh; formerly Maison-Carrée) is a suburb of the Algerian capital Algiers.

The town is home to USM El Harrach football club and the Higher National Veterinary School is located in the area.

Editorial summary

“El Harrach” enters the record as municipality of Algeria. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Harrach, municipality and Algeria can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 42-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Harrach, municipality and Algeria.
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Why this record matters

“El Harrach” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Harrach, municipality and Algeria provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1021018. VIAF identifies the subject as 152503698. The Library of Congress control number is n85042649. Authority coordinates are 36.721, 3.138. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “El Harrach” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.