Laghouat

Province

Laghouat (Arabic الأغواط al - Aghwat, DMG al - Aġwāṭ ) is a town in northern Algeria with about 125,000 (2005) inhabitants. It is located in the homonymous province Laghouat, whose capital it is. It is located south of the Atlas Mountains. Laghouat is since 1955 the seat of the diocese of the same name Laghouat.

In recent mountainous ranges of the southern Saharan Atlas, the city is already on the northern border of the Sahara. The river Wadi Djedi flows close to her.

History

The city was founded in the 11th century and has already succeeded under Moroccan and Ottoman rule. 1852 took over the city by the French. Since 1962 she is Algerian.