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Moorish Family in the Cemetery, Algiers, Algeria

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Moorish Family in the Cemetery, Algiers, Algeria
This photochrome print of a family visiting a cemetery in Algiers is part of “Views of People and Sites in Algeria” from the catalog of the Detroit Publishing Company (1905). The 1911 edition of Baedeker’s The Mediterranean, seaports and searoutes: Handbook for Travellers described a number of cemeteries in the city, including the Cimetière Musulman de Belcourt, and cemeteries for the Jewish and Christian communities on the slopes of Mont Bouzaréah, under the church of Notre Dame d’Afrique. The 1911 edition of Baedeker’s The Mediterranean, seaports and searoutes: Handbook for Travellers described the old city of Algiers as presenting “a highly attractive picture of Oriental life, though partly inhabited by Maltese and Spaniards as well as by Mohammedans of various races and creeds.” Arabs were the dominant group in the population, then as now, but many of the people were Berbers or from other Mahgribi population groups. The family in the photograph is identified as Moorish, a name that refers to the medieval Muslim inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula as well as the Maghreb (including Algeria) and western Africa, but that in Europe often was used more generally to refer to anyone of Arab descent.

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