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| El Alia Cemetery | |
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| Established | 1928 |
| Location | |
| Country |  Algeria |
| Coordinates | 36°43′11″N 3°09′53″E / 36.71972°N 3.16472°E |
| Size | 18 hectares (44 acres) |
El Alia Cemetery (Arabic: مقبرة العالية, romanized: Maqbarat al-ʻĀlīyah) is a cemetery in a suburb of Algiers in the commune of Oued Smar in Algeria the result of the donation in 1928 of a 78 hectares ( 193 acres) plot of land by its owner called "El Alia" means in Arabic which is high, but came from the surname of the donor of the land in 1928, Hamza El-Alia before her departure to mecca .[1]