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Al-Hamiz Valley
Al-Hamiz Valley is a prominent river in Algiers Province, stretching 54 kilometers to the east of Algiers. Its mouth is located between the municipalities of Bordj El Kiffan and Bordj El Bahri. The river originates from the Tell Atlas and Titteri Mountains near the municipality of Deux Bassins in Médéa Province. It flows through the provinces of Bouira, Blida, Boumerdès, and Algiers before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea. Main source Al-Hamiz Valley originates in the northern part of Deux Bassins municipality, located in Médéa Province. Its source lies at a direct linear distance of 33.68 km (20.93 miles) from its mouth on the Mediterranean coast within Algiers Province. The river’s source is situated in the Tell Atlas and Titteri Mountains, which span the central regions of Médéa, Bouira, Blida, and Boumerdès provinces. The path Al-Hamiz Valley flows through five Algerian provinces, crossing various geographical regions, including Titteri, Kabylia, K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Médéa Province
Médéa () is a provinces of Algeria, province (''wilaya'') of Algeria, with a population of.1 062 134 inhabitants in 2019 The capital is Medea, Algeria, Médéa. Administrative divisions The province is divided into 19 districts (''daïras''), which are further divided into 64 communes of Algeria, ''communes'' or municipalities. Districts # Aïn Boucif District, Aïn Boucif # Aziz District, Aziz # Béni Slimane District, Béni Slimane # Berrouaghia District, Berrouaghia # Chahbounia District, Chahbounia # Chellalat El Adhaoura District, Chellalat El Adhaoura # El Azizia District, El Azizia # El Omaria District, El Omaria # Guelb El Kébir District, Guelb El Kébir # Ksar El Boukhari District, Ksar El Boukhari # Médéa District, Médéa # Ouamri District, Ouamri # Ouled Antar District, Ouled Antar # Ouzera District, Ouzera # Seghouane District, Seghouane # Si Mahdjoub District, Si Mahdjoub # Sidi Naâmane District, Sidi Naâmane # Souaghi District, Souaghi # Tablat District, Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djebabra
Djebabra is a town and commune in Blida Province, Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger .... According to the 1998 census it has a population of 2,444. References Communes of Blida Province Blida Province {{Blida-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djamaa El Djazaïr
Djamaa el Djazaïr (), also known as the Great Mosque of Algiers (), is a large mosque located in Algiers, Algeria. Opened in April 2019, it houses the world's tallest minaret and is the third-largest mosque in the world after the Great Mosque of Mecca and Al-Masjid an-Nabawi of Medina in Saudi Arabia. The mosque features a prayer hall (salat) with an area of , capable of accommodating 120,000 worshippers. The central nave of this hall is surrounded by colonnades, with the mihrab located to the east, made of white marble. The hall is topped by a dome with a diameter of , reaching a height of . History The project to provide the capital Algiers with a grand mosque was presented as an initiative of the former Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to mark his presidential mandates. The German consortium that designed Djamaâ El Djazaïr consisted of two architectural firms named "KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten" and "Krebs und Kiefer" until 2016. This German consortium won the inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reghaïa Valley
} Reghaïa Valley is one of the rivers in the Algiers Province, province of Algiers, stretching 17.13 kilometers to the east of the Algerian capital. Its mouth is located between the municipalities of Reghaïa and H'raoua. It is among the longest and most water-abundant rivers in the Algiers region. The river originates in the Tell Atlas and the Khachna Mountains, near the municipality of Bouzegza Keddara, Kedara in the Boumerdès Province, Boumerdes province, flowing through Algiers before draining into Réghaïa lake, Lake Reghaïa near the Réghaïa forest, and eventually emptying into the Mediterranean Sea. Description The Spring (hydrology), spring of Reghaïa Valley is located at Ben Ammar Valley in the municipality of Bouzegza Keddara, within the Khachna Mountains, at an elevation of 500 meters above sea level. The river is part of the Mediterranean basin. The course of Oued Reghaïa flows naturally downhill towards Réghaïa lake, where it branches off within the munic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Réghaïa Lake
Réghaïa lake is located in the commune of Reghaïa, Réghaïa, Algeria, 29 km east of Algiers. It collects water from a watershed of 842 km², from which the Oued Réghaïa flows. The lake, together with the Réghaïa forest, was recognized as a Ramsar site on June 4, 2003. Location Réghaïa lake is located 29 km east of Algiers Province, Algiers. It is located in the commune of Reghaïa, Réghaïa in the Mitidja region of Basse Kabylie. Description Réghaïa lake corresponds to the estuary of the Oued Réghaïa, whose mouth is blocked by a dune belt. Some 600 meters upstream from the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean, an artificial dyke retains the permanent waters of the marshland site. This maritime marsh has gently sloping banks. History Before the 1930s, when the dunes held back the Oued Réghaïa and its bed had not been deepened, there was a natural marsh rich in waterfowl, but the quest for new farmland led to the wadi being drained by pumping, draining and plant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casbah Of Algiers
The Casbah of Algiers, commonly referred to as the Casbah (Arabic: القصبة, Al-qaṣabah, meaning "citadel"), corresponds to the old town or Medina quarter, medina of Algiers, the capital of Algeria. It is a historic district that has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1992. Administratively, it is located within the Communes of Algeria, municipality of Kasbah, Casbah, in the Algiers Province, province of Algiers. Likely inhabited since the Neolithic period, as were various sites in the Algiers Sahel, the first mentions of the city date back to Ancient history, Antiquity, when it was initially a Phoenicia, Phoenician port, later becoming Berbers, Berber and eventually Rome, Roman. The current urban framework was designed in the 10th century by the Berbers under the Zirid dynasty, later enriched by contributions from other Berber dynasties that successively ruled the central Maghreb. The Casbah reached its peak during the period of the Regency of Algiers, servin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oued El Harrach
The Wadi El Harrach is an Algerian river that originates in the Bliden, Atlas Mountains near Hammam Melouane. It is long and flows into the Mediterranean, right in the middle of the . Oued El Harrach crosses the Mitidja plain from Bougara and irrigates agricultural areas all around, thanks in particular to its tributaries and canals, Oued Djemâa, Oued Baba Ali, Oued El Terro and Wadi Semar which crosses an industrial zone Of the eastern suburbs of Algiers. Its main tributary is the Oued El Kerma which increases the volume of the river thanks to the waters descended from the Algerian sahel. The Oued El Harrach has an average flow of but this can rise to in times of flood. The river flows through of Industrial Area, in Algiers, and so is now very polluted. Pollution in the river now threatens the bay of Algiers, since in 2005 a study conducted by the Japanese researcher Mitsuo Yoshida discovered lead, chlorine, zinc and chromium in large quantities discharged into the sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitidja
Mitidja, (Arabic: ) is a plain stretching along the outskirts of Algiers in northern Algeria. It is about long, with a width of . Traditionally devoted largely to agriculture and serving as the breadbasket of Algiers, the area has in recent decades become increasingly urbanized with the expansion of Algiers. Geography The Mitidja plain is bounded on the east by the Boudouaou River, on the west by the Nador River, on the north by the hills of the Algiers Sahel, and on the south by the range.. It stretches about from east to west, with a width varying from . At an average altitude of , it slopes very slightly towards the sea. Its fertile soils enjoy a temperate Mediterranean climate with adequate rainfall, and are devoted largely to the cultivation of citrus fruits in east and grapes in the west. From west to east, the plain traverses the wilayas (provinces) of Tipaza, Blida, Algiers, Boumerdès, and the north-eastern corner of Médéa. Four important urban centers are locat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kabylia
Kabylia or Kabylie (; in Kabyle: Tamurt n leqbayel; in Tifinagh: ⵜⴰⵎⵓⵔⵜ ⵏ ⵍⴻⵇⴱⴰⵢⴻⵍ; ), meaning "Land of the Tribes" is a mountainous coastal region in northern Algeria and the homeland of the Kabyle people. It is part of the Tell Atlas mountain range and is located at the edge of the Mediterranean. Kabylia covers two provinces of Algeria: Tizi Ouzou and Béjaïa. Gouraya National Park and Djurdjura National Park are also located in Kabylia. Name During the French colonization of Algeria, the French invented the term 'Kabylia', a term never used by the Arab and Berber populations of Algeria prior to the French invasion. The word 'Kabyle' is a distortion of the Arabic word ''qaba'il'' (قبائل) which has two meanings, the first one is tribes that live among sedentary populations and the second is 'to accept', which Arabs after the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb used for local populations that accepted Islam. History Antiquity Kabylia was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. Launched for public access in 2001, the service allows users to go "back in time" to see how websites looked in the past. Founders Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat developed the Wayback Machine to provide "universal access to all knowledge" by preserving archived copies of defunct web pages. The Wayback Machine's earliest archives go back at least to 1995, and by the end of 2009, more than 38.2 billion webpages had been saved. As of November 2024, the Wayback Machine has archived more than 916 billion web pages and well over 100 petabytes of data. History The Internet Archive has been archiving cached web pages since at least 1995. One of the earliest known pages was archived on May 8, 1995. Internet Archive founders Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat launched the Wayback Machine in San Francisco, California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces Of Algeria
Algeria, as of 2024, is divided into 58 wilaya, wilayas (province, provinces). Prior to December 18, 2019, there were 48 provinces. The 58 provinces are divided into 1,541 baladiyahs (Municipalities of Algeria, municipalities). The name of a province is always that of its capital city. According to the Algerian constitution, a wilaya is a territorial collectivity enjoying economic and diplomatic freedom, the APW, or ''Popular Provincial Parliament/Provincial Popular Parliament'' (the ''Assemblée Populaire Wilayale'', in French) is the political entity governing a province, directed by the Wali (administrative title), ''Wali'' (Governor), who is chosen by the Algerian President to handle the APW's decisions, the APW has also a president, who is elected by the members of the APW, which Algerians elect. List By 1984 the number of Algerian provinces was fixed at 48 and established the list of municipalities or "communes" attached to each province. In 2019, 10 new provinces were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
