Bouzareah or Bouzaréah (Arabic: بوزريعة , romanized: būzareah ) is a suburb of Algiers , Algeria. It had a population of 69,200 people in 1998 and an altitude of over 300 meters AMSL . The city's name is Arabic and means "of the grain " or "from the grain". The embassies of Niger , Oman , and Mauritania are located there.
4-610: The city is home to several notable institutions: Frederic Sy was a French astronomer who published scientific articles from 1894 to 1918 about comets and asteroids. He worked at the astronomical observatory the Research center in Astronomy, Astrophysique and Geophysics ( CRAAG , formerly the Observatory of Algiers ) and was a colleague of François Gonnessiat . He discovered two asteroids, which he named: The first quarter
8-477: Is red, the heraldic color of Africa with a tower to represent a fort located in the city. The second quarter is green, of sinople with a kouba to point out the koubbas of Sidi-Nouman inter alia. With the third district, sinople cypresses to point out the wooded solid mass which covered formerly all the "Bouzaréah". With the fourth district the crescent of Islam with the stars which refer to the Observatory of
12-632: The Paris Observatory from 1879 to 1887, and as the assistant astronomer at the Algiers Observatory , North Africa, from 1887 to 1918. While working in Algiers he published extensively on the subjects of minor asteroids and comets, and was a colleague of astronomer François Gonnessiat . Sy was responsible for the discovery and naming of two asteroids, 858 El Djezaïr and 859 Bouzaréah . The names were drawn from locations near
16-479: The Celestial Village on blue of France. This coat of arms was made by Théo Bruand d' Uzelle in 1993. El Kalimat School, an English-language international school, is in the commune. 36°47′N 3°01′E / 36.783°N 3.017°E / 36.783; 3.017 Frederic Sy Frédéric Sy (1861-1917) was a French astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets . He worked at
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