{{Infobox settlement |official_name =Si-Mustapha |other_name = |native_name = |nickname = |settlement_type =Commune and town |motto = |image_skyline = |imagesize = |image_caption = |image_flag = |flag_size = |image_seal = |seal_size = |image_map = DZ 35 Si Mustapha.svg |mapsize = 120px |map_caption = |pushpin_map = |pushpin_label_position =bottom |pushpin_mapsize=300 |pushpin_map_caption = |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name ={{flag|Algeria}} |subdivision_type1 = Province |subdivision_name1 =Boumerdès Province |subdivision_type2 = District |subdivision_name2 = |subdivision_type3 = |subdivision_name3 = |government_footnotes = |government_type = |leader_title = |leader_name = |established_title = |established_date = |area_magnitude = |unit_pref =Imperial |area_footnotes = |area_total_km2 = |area_land_km2 = |population_as_of = 1998 |population_footnotes = |population_note = |population_total =9015 |population_density_km2 = |timezone = CET |utc_offset = +1 |coordinates = |elevation_footnotes = |elevation_m = |elevation_ft = |postal_code_type = |postal_code = |area_code = |blank_name = |blank_info = |website = |footnotes = }} '''Si-Mustapha''' is a town and commune in the Isser District of Boumerdès Province, Algeria. At the time of the 1998 census it had a population of 9,015.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.statoids.com/ydz.html |title=Municipalities of Algeria |website=Statoids}}{{rs|date=May 2024}}</ref>{{needs update|date=May 2024}}
Previously named Blad Guitoune ("land of the tent"), it was renamed Félix-Faure in 1899 during the colonial period, after the former French president Félix Faure.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://anom.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/geo.php?lieu=F%C3%A9lix-Faure+%28Alg%C3%A9rie%29 |title=Félix-Faure (Algérie) |publisher=Archives nationales d'outre-mer |language=fr}}</ref> After independence in 1962, it was given the new name of Si Mustapha, after the ''nom de guerre'' of the ALN fighter Mohamed Saoudi, who died nearby in combat on 25 November 1958.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.liberte-algerie.com/culture/lhistoire-dune-region-martyrisee-253574/print/1 |title=La guerre de Libération dans la région de Si Mustapha, Legata, Koudiat El-Araïs, Zemmouri, Zaâtra (1954-1962), de Rabah Boumriche (review) |work=Liberté-Algérie |language=fr |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213174458/https://www.liberte-algerie.com/culture/lhistoire-dune-region-martyrisee-253574/print/1 |archivedate=13 February 2021}}</ref>
A 4th-century octagonal mausoleum formerly found there was demolished in 1905.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Jean-Pierre Laporte |url=https://www.academia.edu/30818135 |title=Le mausolée tardif de Blad Guitoun (Wilaya de Bou Merdès) |journal=Ikosim |number=2 |date=2013 |pages=91–108 |language=fr}}</ref>
==History== * First Battle of the Issers (1837)
==Notable people== {{Main|List of people from Boumerdès Province}} * Mohamed Aïchaoui (1921-1959), an Algerian journalist and resistant against French colonization.
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