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2012 Thénia Bombing
The 2012 Thénia bombing occurred on January 11, 2012 when a bomb detonated against a patrol of the Customs, Algerian Customs in the town of Thénia, Boumerdès Province, Algeria injuring 2. The Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb was suspected as being responsible. See also * Terrorist bombings in Algeria * List of terrorist incidents, 2012 References History of Thénia Suicide car and truck bombings in Algeria Mass murder in 2012 2012 disasters in Algeria Terrorist incidents in Africa in 2012 Terrorist incidents in Algeria in the 2010s 2012 murders in Algeria Islamic terrorism in Algeria {{terrorism-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thénia
Thénia (), sometimes written as ''Thenia'', with around 40,000 inhabitants, is the chief town in the daïra of the same name, in the wilaya of Boumerdès, in northern Algeria. Historically, the name is a contraction of ''Theniet Beni Aicha'' (ثنية بني عائشة) "the mountain pass of the sons of Aisha", the Arabic translation of the Kabyle Berber toponym ''Tizi n At Ɛica''. The steep-sided pass, which is only about 800 metres wide at its narrowest point, is sometimes taken to mark the transition between Mitidja and Grande Kabylie. Villages The villages of the commune of ''Thénia'' are: Geography Thénia is located on the main road from Algiers to Constantine, about forty kilometres east of Algiers, about ten kilometres inland from the coast, at an altitude of 300 metres—an excerpt from the 1962 Michelin map of Algeria showing the location can be seehere Between the town and the coast, the scrub-covered Djebel bou Arous rises to a height of around 400 metres and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
