Ghazaouet

Province

Ghazaouet (formerly Nemours; الغزوات Arabic ) is a port city in nordwestalgerische same district of the province of Tlemcen.

Geography

Ghazaouet located on the West Algerian coast between Cape Tarsa and the Moroccan border. During the French colonial period, it was called Nemours.

The city lies at the foot of the mountain chain of the Monts fanfare. Your flow to the Oued El Mersa and other small streams that reach here the Mediterranean Sea. In the town there are three significant surveys. It is around the mountains Djebel Fillaousen ( 1136 m), Djebel Tadjra ( 861 m) and Djebel Zendal (613 m).

On the nearby mountain slopes characterize the oak and eucalyptus trees. The climate is dry and in the course of relatively consistent. In calendar year Ghazaouet has 72 rainy days with 485 mm of rainfall on average. The annual temperature varies from 12 to 24.5 ° C.

History

The city has a Ghazaouet Roman Prehistory. At that time it was called Ad Fratres. This name is derived from two distinctive and about 25 meters high rock (Les Deux Frères / Two Brothers ), which are about 300 meters off the coast. You already served in this era as a navigation aid for navigation. In Roman times, here is a port facility and on the eastern plateau of rocky headland a military post ( 4th century ) was present.

The French Nemours has been founded in 1844. At that time it was built to supply the war with Morocco appropriate military installations. Your name from the French military settlement by royal decree in 1847 after Louis Charles Philippe Raphael d' Orléans, duc de Nemours, in Algeria, the French troops commanded during the 1830s and a war of conquest against Abd el-Kader led.

In 1869, the colonial authorities formed on the basis of the Decree of 27 January the administrative district Nemours. On May 2, 1869 made ​​its first local elections. Since that time the settlement took its architecture gradually to a European face.

Beginning with the 1931 preparations were made for the construction of the railway line from Oujda Morocco over the border station Zoudj -el- Beghal by Nemours. This was mainly for the anthracite deposits of Jerada and manganese ore at Bouarfa. This subsection was taken in 1936 in operation.

The expansion of the port began in modern times in 1908 and served since the trade and fisheries. Temporary Moroccan products had a high share of exports going on in this harbor. Between 1953 and 1958 its area was extended by the company A. Monod and since then he has ten quays. The rail connection enables exchange of goods up to Niger.

Population

The indigenous population belongs to the Arabs. There are also French. The population was 1948 in 9514 persons. Meanwhile, they steadily increased (1977: . 17,176 inhabitants; 1987: 27 252 Ew. ).

Religion

The population is mainly Muslim.

Economy and Transport

The economic backbone of the city was always her harbor. Today there is a container terminal. In the country he claimed an area of ​​23 hectares and is designed for freight and passenger transport. As a fishing port is the port that Algeria has a high importance. Main products are sardines and anchovies. On mineral products coal, manganese, iron, copper and cobalt ore and other raw materials are carried out. Particularly active trade relations exist today with Spain (Port Alméria ).

Of freight is carried by road and by rail to and from the hinterland. The railway line runs initially southward and flows west of Tlemcen in the main line Oran Oujda -Casablanca.

The National Road N. 7A extends from south to Ghazaouet Maghnia, where it rises in the N. 7 to Tlemcen. Regional roads open up the mountainous hinterland of the city.

In the environment of the city, especially in the ravines with sufficient water situation, gardens and orchards have been created. At the center of agriculture are fruits and viticulture.

Attractions

  • Old docks and Church
  • Monument de Bab- el- Assa in the city center ( the old port )
  • Rock group Les Deux Frères and a small group Les deux soeurs in the harbor bay
  • One kilometer east of the city center ancient Roman settlement remains
  • Old Berber Castle Taount on the eastern plateau
  • Two kilometers east of the city center, the Marabout de Sidi Brahim

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Octave -Edouard -Francois Llabador (* May 17, 1877, † November 10, 1939 ), lawyer, mayor of Nemours
  • Han Ryner ( born December 7, 1861 † 6 January 1938) poet and philosopher
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