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Cheffia is a town and 
The Cheffia valley was described in 1868 by Reboud as being comprised between the eastern slope of the Bou Habet and a series of grassy knolls where a few gardens and clumps of azeroliers stand here and there. It is a valley which measures from north to south about fifteen kilometres and five kilometres wide. It is divided into two basins by the cultivated plateau of Sidi-Bou-Aoun, which has large stones.
Cheffia is the site of the Roman city of Thullium in the Province of 
commune
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in El Taref Province
El Taref ( ar, ولاية الطارف) is a province (''wilaya'') of Algeria. El Kala is a port town in this province. El Taref is the capital city. El Kala, a port town in this province, is home to '' El Kala National Park''.
History
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. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 7,450.
The Cheffia valley was described in 1868 by Reboud as being comprised between the eastern slope of the Bou Habet and a series of grassy knolls where a few gardens and clumps of azeroliers stand here and there. It is a valley which measures from north to south about fifteen kilometres and five kilometres wide. It is divided into two basins by the cultivated plateau of Sidi-Bou-Aoun, which has large stones.
History
Cheffia is the site of the Roman city of Thullium in the Province of Numidia
Numidia ( Berber: ''Inumiden''; 202–40 BC) was the ancient kingdom of the Numidians located in northwest Africa, initially comprising the territory that now makes up modern-day Algeria, but later expanding across what is today known as Tuni ...
. The Cheffia valley contains a number of ruins that can be considered as Libyan necropolises. Reboud describes a number thereof, and their Lybic (Libyco-Berber
The Libyco-Berber alphabet or the Libyc alphabet (modern Berber name: ''Agemmay Alibu-Maziɣ'') is an abjad writing system that was used during the first millennium BC by various Berber peoples of North Africa and the Canary Islands, to write an ...
) inscriptions, and published the map shown in this article. The region was slow to christianize, with Thullium not receiving its first bishop until the end of the fifth century; a bishop from there was present at the Council of Carthage in 525.
Notable people
*Boudjemaa Talai
Boudjemaa Talai (; 17 May 1952 – 6 August 2022) was an Algerian engineer, corporate executive, and politician who served as the Algerian from 2015 to 2017. A member of the National Liberation Front, Talai also served as a member of the Peopl ...
(1952–2022), politician
References
Communes of El Taref Province El Taref Province {{ElTaref-geo-stub