Tissemsilt ( ar, ولاية تسمسيلت) is the 38th

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with the capital being Tissemsilt. Théniet El Haâd National Park is located there.

History

The province was created from parts of

Alger Province Algiers Province ( ar, ولاية الجزائر, ', ; french: wilaya d'Alger or ) is a province (wilayah) in Algeria, named after its capital, Algiers, which is also the national capital. It is adopted from the old French department of Algiers a ...

and

Tiaret Province Tiaret ( ar, ولاية تيارت) is a province ('' wilaya'') of Algeria. The capital is Tiaret. History The province was created from El Asnam department and Tiaret department in 1974. In 1984 Tissemsilt Province is carved out of its territo ...

in 1984.

Administrative divisions

The province is divided into 8 districts (''

daïra A daïra or daerah ( ''circle''; plural ''dawaïr'') is an administrative division in Algeria and Western Sahara in West Africa, as well as Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia in Southeast Asia. It is commonly translated in English as "district". West ...

s''), which are further divided into 22 ''communes'' or municipalities.

Districts

# Ammari # Bordj Bou Naâma # Bordj Emir Abdelkader # Khémisti # Lardjem # Lazharia # Théniet El Had # Tissemsilt

Communes

# Ammari # Beni Chaib # Beni Lahcene # Bordj Bou Naama # Bordj El Emir Abdelkader # Boucaid #

Khemisti Khemisti is a town and commune in Tissemsilt Province in northern Algeria. It was called Bourbaki when Algeria was a colony of France. History In Roman times, it was called Columnata and belonged to the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis ...

Laayoune Laâyoune ( , also , ) or El Aaiún ( , ; Hassaniya Arabic: , romanized: ; ber, ⵍⵄⵢⵓⵏ, Leɛyun; ar, label= Literary Arabic, العيون, al-ʿUyūn/el-ʿUyūn, lit=The Springs) is the largest city of the disputed territory of We ...

(Layoune) # Larbaa # Lardjem # Lazharia # Maacem # Melaab # Ouled Bessem # Sidi Abed # Sidi Boutouchent # Sidi Lantri # Sidi Slimane # Tamalaht # Théniet El Had # Tissemsilt # Youssoufia (El Youssoufia)

References

Provinces of Algeria States and territories established in 1984 {{Tissemsilt-geo-stub