Baghai is a town and commune in

Khenchela Province Khenchela Province () is a provinces of Algeria, province (''wilaya'') in the Aures, Aurès region in Algeria. History The province was created from parts of Oum el Bouaghi Province and Tébessa Province in 1984. Administrative division The pro ...

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 ...

. It is located at 35°30'59.99" N 7°06'60.00" E. According to the 1998 census it has a

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of 6,414.Statoids
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Geography

Baghai is located between the Aurès mountains in the

south South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both west and east. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþa ...

and the Garaat al-Tarf

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in the north.

El Hamma, Khenchela El Hamma, Khenchela is a town and commune in Khenchela 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, th ...

is 4½ km away and 7 km to the

Khenchela Khenchela (; ; anciently Mascula) is the capital city of the administrative Khenchela Province ('' Wilaya''), in the north east of Algeria. Situated in the Aures Mountains, 1200 m above sea level. The city is mainly populated by Berber Cha ...

, capital of

History

In antiquity Baghai was known as

Bagai Bagai was a Roman–Berber city in the province of Africa Proconsularis. It must have been of some reasonable size, as it was also the seat of an ancient Catholic bishopric. The ancient city has been identified with ruins at Ksar-Bagaï outsid ...

, and was a

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Roman North Africa Africa was a Roman province on the northern coast of the continent of Africa. It was established in 146 BC, following the Roman Republic's conquest of Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day Tunisi ...

References

Communes of Khenchela Province {{Khenchela-geo-stub