Sidi Okba District

Sidi Okba District
District
Country  Algeria
Province Biskra Province
Time zone CET (UTC+1)

Sidi Okba District is a district of Biskra Province, Algeria.

In Sidi Okba there is a tomb in the Al-Shurafa cemetery in which the old leader Abu al-Muhajir Dinar is buried together with 300 other people.He was the emir of the great Umayyads empire.

Coordinates: 34°45′N 5°54′E / 34.750°N 5.900°E / 34.750; 5.900

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