Mount Chenoua (
Berber
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* Berbers, an ethnic group native to Northern Africa
* Berber languages, a family of Afro-Asiatic languages
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* Berber, Sudan, a town on the Nile
People with the surname
* Ady Berber (1913–19 ...
: Adrar en Cenwa, ar, جبل شنوة) is a mountain range in northern
Algeria
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. It is located between
Cherchell
Cherchell (Arabic: شرشال) is a town on Algeria's Mediterranean coast, west of Algiers. It is the seat of Cherchell District in Tipaza Province. Under the names Iol and Caesarea, it was formerly a Roman colony and the capital of the k ...
and
Tipaza
Tipaza (formerly ''Tefessedt'', Chenoua-Berber: Bazar, ⴱⴰⵣⴰⵔ, ar, تيپازة) is the capital of the Tipaza Province, Algeria. When it was part of the Roman Empire, it was called '' Tipasa''. The modern town was founded in 1857, and is ...
on the
Mediterranean
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coast, just west of
Algiers
Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques d ...
. There are
marble
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quarries on the side of the mountain.
Description
There is a village on that mountain named Chenoua. A majority of its inhabitants speak a
Berber language
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, the
Shenwa Berber. According to local tradition the mountain range looks like a reclining
pregnant woman
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Pregnancy usually occurs by sexual intercourse, but ...
from a certain distance.
Mount Chenoua is the site of
Assia Djebar
Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (30 June 1936 – 6 February 2015), known by her pen name Assia Djebar ( ar, آسيا جبار), was an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted fo ...
's film
La Nouba des Femmes du Mont Chenoua.
La Nouba des Femmes du Mont-Chenoua
/ref> It also features prominently in Albert Camus
Albert Camus ( , ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His work ...
' posthumously published novel, A Happy Death
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. There is also a Stone Eagle statue that was built in 1991.
See also
*Geography of Algeria
Algeria comprises square kilometers of land, more than 80% of which is desert, in North Africa, between Morocco and Tunisia. It is the largest country in Africa. Its Arabic name, Al Jazair (the islands), is believed to derive from the roc ...
yAS
References
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