Mount Chenoua (
Berber
Berber or Berbers may refer to:
Ethnic group
* Berbers, an ethnic group native to Northern Africa
* Berber languages, a family of Afro-Asiatic languages
Places
* Berber, Sudan, a town on the Nile
People with the surname
* Ady Berber (1913–196 ...
: Adrar en Cenwa, ) is a mountain range in northern
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 between
Cherchell and
Tipaza on the
Mediterranean
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coast, just west of
Algiers
Algiers is the capital city of Algeria as well as the capital of the Algiers Province; it extends over many Communes of Algeria, communes without having its own separate governing body. With 2,988,145 residents in 2008Census 14 April 2008: Offi ...
. There are
marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or Dolomite (mineral), dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2) that have recrystallized under the influence of heat and pressure. It has a crystalline texture, and is ty ...
quarries on the side of the mountain.
Description
There is a village on that mountain named Chenoua. A majority of its inhabitants speak a
Berber language
The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They comprise a group of closely related but mostly mutually unintelligible languages spoken by Berber communities, who ar ...
, the
Shenwa Berber. According to local tradition the mountain range looks like a reclining
pregnant woman from a certain distance.
Mount Chenoua is the site of
Assia Djebar's film
La Nouba des Femmes du Mont Chenoua.
La Nouba des Femmes du Mont-Chenoua
/ref> It also features prominently in Albert Camus
Albert Camus ( ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the s ...
' posthumously published novel, A Happy Death. There is also a Stone Eagle statue that was built in 1991.
See also
* Geography of Algeria
References
Chenoua
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