Sidi Ghiles (

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: سيدي غيلاس; formerly ''Novi'' during the French colonization) is a town on

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coast. The municipality of Novi is located about west of

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and southwest of Cherchell. This agricultural locality is from Algiers. Novi, renowned for its fertile soil, vineyards and wines, is located by the sea. It is a modern village despite its traditionally typical so-called "colonization" villages with its well-traced streets, airy, lined with houses and villas resplendent with whiteness. An agricultural colony, Novi was originally managed by the military authority and founded by decree of the National Assembly of 19 September 1848 and by order of the Minister of War

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(1806-1865) on September 27 of the same year. It is one of the first seven centers of colonization created in Algeria.

Names

After the independence of Algeria on July 5, 1962, the town of Novi became known as Sidi Ghiles.

History

Inhabitation

Located in the middle of the Algerian vineyards between the sea and mountains, Sidi Ghiles' initial population was mainly made up of the political deportees of 1848, and became an annex of Cherchell. It was, then, a municipality that covered an area of with a population of 1,047 inhabitants including 423 French. Most of the other inhabitants were native Berbers indigenous to the surrounding hills and Atlas Mountains. In 1903, Mayor Léon Roseau gave Novi a school group. In 1908, some owners grouped themselves to create a co-operative wine cellar of whose notabilty has crossed the borders of North Africa.

The department

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of the regency of Algiers then recently conquered. Therefore, the city of Algiers was made the prefecture of the department bearing its name, then covering the center of Algeria, leaving to the east the department of Constantine and to the west the department of Oran. On January 28, 1956, an administrative reform to take account ofstrong population growth, separated the department of Algiers from its hinterland, creating on May 20, 1957, three additional departments:

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, Orleansville and

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. The district of Cherchell, in the department of Orleansville, consisted of eight localities: Bouyamine, Cherchell, Genoa Fountain,

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, Marceau ( Menaceur), Novi, Villbourg and Zurich ( Sidi Amar).
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The emigration

On August 11, 1962, 293 of the 300 Frenchmen of Novi left by boat for

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, under the protection of the French army.

References

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