Tlemcen

Province

Tlemcen (Arabic تلمسان, Tilimsān, at Leo Africanus also Telensin ) is a town in Northwestern Algeria, and the capital of the homonymous province. Ibn Khaldun refers to it as the center of the central Maghreb. Their heyday, the city had when she was under the Abdalwadiden 1236-1554 capital of an empire in western Algeria. Economic importance of the production of carpets, leather goods and textiles. The city has just over 120,000 inhabitants and is located at about 800 m above sea level. NN and leans on the mountain Lalla Setti.

Patron saint of the city is the Sufi saint Abu Madyan, who was born in 1126 as Shu'aib ibn Husain in Seville, in Mecca and Baghdad acquired the experience for his doctrine, and finally in the village of El Ubbad (al- ʿ Ubbād al - Suflí ) at Tlemcen settled. After his death in 1197/98 his tomb was ( qubba ) target of annual pilgrimages. Another revered and influential Sufi mystic from the 12th century is Abdallah es- Schudhi, who was a respected judge in Seville, until he got stuck after long trips in Tlemcen, where he sold candy to children and was recognized as a saint.

Attractions

The city of Tlemcen consists of traditional and French- colonial dominated neighborhoods. There are buildings that represent the products of a high cultural baggage of Islamic culture. In the checkered road systems of the colonial era has created avenues of plane trees. Southeast of the old center there are the fortifications of Mechouar ( citadel). Not far from the city in a north-easterly direction remains of the former Roman settlement Pomaria are obtained.

In the urban area there are several mosques, of which include the Great Mosque, its present appearance dates back to the year 1132, and the mosque of Sidi Bel Hassen of the most important architectural monuments of the old city. In the latter, the museum is housed on the history. It has exhibits of archaeological excavations, prehistoric finds and geological conditions of the region. A special feature of the museum is the magnificently decorated mihrab with a Stalaktitgewölbe.

Noteworthy is also the mosque of Sidi Haloui, decorate in their prayer room Onyxmarmorsäulen with capitals decorated the interior. The information presented in the wider community of the city of deposits colored Sinterkalke have so found in this way in the architecture Tlemcens and its region in Fes and in Paris as a valuable decoration colored rocks for prominent purpose input. Individual occurrences of them were mined as early as the Roman era.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Patrick Bruel ( born 1959 ), French singer and actor
  • Jean Rabasse ( b. 1961 ), French scenes and stage

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