Cap Bougaroûn T (
Arabic: رأس بوقارون Ras Bougaroun "Cap the Horns" or "Horned Cap") or the Seven Caps (Arabic Seba Rous) is a cape in
Algeria in
Skikda Province.
The Cape constitutes the western end of the Gulf of Skikda, opposite the
:fr:Cap de Fer, and forms a peninsula which is the most important of the Algerian coast. It is the northernmost point of Algeria.
In the first century, it was named ''Cape Treton'' (Greek Τρητόν "Chiseled") in the Geography of Strabo. It marked the limit between the
Masaesyli in the west and the
Massylii in the east.
The November 6, 1943, the
Luftwaffe led an
attack
Attack may refer to:
Warfare and combat
* Offensive (military)
* Charge (warfare)
* Attack (fencing)
* Strike (attack)
* Attack (computing)
* Attack aircraft
Books and publishing
* ''The Attack'' (novel), a book
* '' Attack No. 1'', comic an ...
off Cape Bougaroun on the KMF-25A convoy composed of 26 transport ships escorted by 15 Allied warships, in which six ships were sunk and six German planes were shot down.
References
Geography of Skikda Province
Headlands of Africa
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