Baghai is a town and

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

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. 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

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and the Garaat al-Tarf

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in the north.

El Hamma, Khenchela El Hamma, Khenchela is a town and Communes of Algeria, commune in Khenchela Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it had a population of 10,702. References

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is 4½ km away and 7 km to the

Khenchela Khenchela ancient Mascula ( ar, خنشلة) is the capital city of the administrative Khenchela Province (''Wilaya''), number 40, in the north east of Algeria. Situated in the Aures Mountains, 1200 m above sea level. The city is mainly popu ...

, 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 Proconsularis was a Roman province on the northern African coast that was established in 146 BC following the defeat of Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day Tunisia, the northeast of Algeria, ...

References

Communes of Khenchela Province {{Khenchela-geo-stub