TweetWhy is a northern Iowa town named for an Arab/Muslim hero? There are almost 20,000 cities incorporated in the United States. Elkader, Iowa, may be the only city in America named after an Arab Muslim. Emir Abdelkader was a young Algerian hero who fought French settlers for almost 20 years in the mid-19th century. How…
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