Mostaganem

British  

/ məˌstæɡəˈnɛm /

noun

1. a port in NW Algeria, on the Mediterranean Sea: exports wine, fruit, and vegetables. Pop: 133 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

"Well, I am curious to know what they think of all this at Mostaganem," said the captain.

From Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space by Verne, Jules

From Oran and Mostaganem three columns were sent forth against the tribes occupying the large expanse of territory lying between the Atlas Mountains and the Mediterranean, and the tribes extending toward the Sahara.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

The scene, as here depicted, took place upon the extremity of a little cape on the Algerian coast, between Mostaganem and Tenes, about two miles from the mouth of the Shelif.

From Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space by Verne, Jules

Senussi, a Mohammedan brotherhood in the Soudan, founded by Mohammed-es-Senussi from Mostaganem, in Algeria, who flourished between 1830 and 1860.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

The Arabs attacked Mostaganem and Arzee and lured Yussuf, the commander of the new French corps of native Spahis, into an ambush.

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin