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[[File:Sidi-Daoud-Algeria.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Sidi Daoud viewed from the east bank]]

'''Sidi Daoud''' ({{Langx|ar|سيدي داوود}}) is a farming town in north-central [[Algeria]], on the west bank of the ''[[Sebaou River]]'', a few kilometers downstream from its [[river delta|mouth]].  It is the capital of a municipality dominated by the mountain of Bouberak, including the coastal village of Sahel Bouberak and the [[Zawiya (institution)|zawiya]] of Sidi Amar Cherif.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lnr-dz.com/|title=Journal La Nouvelle République Algérie|website=La Nouvelle République Algérie}}</ref>  This municipality is one of three constituting the [[Baghlia District]] in eastern [[Boumerdès Province]].  As of 2008, the population of the municipality is 16,900.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wilaya-boumerdes.dz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=72&Itemid=114|title=الموقع الرسمي لولاية بومرداس|website=www.wilaya-boumerdes.dz}}</ref>

==History==
{{Main|First Battle of the Issers}}
During the early colonial period, the area around Sidi Daoud was called Issers-Djedian, after the tribe inhabiting it.  After defeating the 1871 [[Mokrani Revolt]] against colonial rule, the French government launched an extensive program of land expropriation to punish groups that had fought against them; from the Issers ed Djedian, they expropriated 2486 hectares of land in 1873<ref>Alain Mahé, 2001, ''Histoire de la Grande Kabylie, XIXe-XXe siècles'', p. 586</ref> to found the new settlement of '''Bois-Sacré''' (Sacred Wood), thought to be a corruption of the Arabic place name Bou-Askri (place of the soldier).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://abboboissacre.canalblog.com/archives/2008/02/12/7920953.html|title=DE BOIS-SACRE A ABBO : LE NOM DU VILLAGE|website=L'ABBOMINABLE AVENTURE}}</ref> In 1909 it was renamed '''Abbo''', after the French settler Adraste Abbo who had proposed the project of founding it. In 1958, it became part of the former department of Algiers. After Algeria's independence in 1962, the town took the name of Sidi Daoud.

==Zawiya==
{{Main|Zawiyas in Algeria}}
{{See also|Sufism in Algeria|Rahmaniyya}}
* [[Zawiyet Sidi Amar Cherif]]

==Notable people==
{{Main|List of people from Boumerdès Province}}
* [[Hocine Ziani]], Algerian artist.
* [[Gabriel Abbo]], French politician
* {{illm|Sidi Amar Cherif|ar|سيدي أعمر الشريف الإيراثني}}, Algerian theologian.

==Notes==
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[[Category:Populated places in Boumerdès Province]]


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