Didouche Mourad

Didouche Mourad is a commune of the wilaya of Constantine, in eastern Algeria. It belongs to the daira, or district, of Hamma Bouziane. In the French colonial period the commune was called Bizot. Today it bears the name of Didouche Mourad, born in Algiers on 13 July 1927. He died on 18 January 1955 at douar Souadek, a rural hamlet near Condé-Smendou, today Zighoud Youcef. It had 44,951 inhabitants at the 2008 census (ONS).