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Boumerdès Boumerdès ( ar, بومرداس; Kabyle: Bumerdas; formerly ''Rocher Noir'') is the capital city of Boumerdès Province, Algeria. It is located on the Mediterranean Sea. It had a population of 28,500 in 1998 and 15,000 in 1987. Boumerdès is a s ...

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. It was named after its capital,

Dellys Dellys ( ar, دلّس, Berber: Delles) is a small Mediterranean town in northern Algeria's coastal Boumerdès Province, almost due north of Tizi-Ouzou and just east of the Sebaou River. It is the district seat of the daïra of Dellys. The town ...

Municipalities

The district is further divided into 3

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Ben Choud Ben Choud is a town and commune in Boumerdès Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 8,853. History * First Battle of the Issers The First Battle of the Issers in May 1837, during the French conquest of Algeria, ...

Aafir Aafir or Afir (Arabic: أعفير, Kabyle: ''Aɛfir'') is a town and commune located on the Mediterranean Sea within Dellys District, Boumerdès Province, northern Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of approximately 12,613. A ...

History

French conquest

Shipwreck of Dellys The Shipwreck of Dellys took place in May 1830, during the French conquest of Algeria. It involved French troupes coloniales, under captains Félix-Ariel d'Assigny (1794-1846) and Armand Joseph Bruat (1796-1855), who were captured by the resista ...

(15 May 1830), commanded by Captain

Armand Joseph Bruat Armand Joseph Bruat (Colmar, 26 May 1796 – ''French ship Montebello (1812), Montebello'', off Toulon, 19 November 1855) was a French people, French admiral. Biography Bruat joined the French Navy in 1811, at the height of the Napoleonic Wars ...

(1796-1855) and Captain

Félix-Ariel d'Assigny Félix-Ariel Flamen d'Assigny (born in Paris on 21 June 1794 and died in Toulon on 11 August 1846) was a French officer who participated to the French conquest of Algeria. Family Félix-Ariel Flamen d'Assigny was born in the city of Nevers, and ...

(1794-1846). *

First Battle of the Issers The First Battle of the Issers in May 1837, during the French conquest of Algeria, pitted the troupes coloniales under General Perrégaux and Colonel Schauenburg against the troops of Kabylia of the ''Igawawen''. Background The ceasefire si ...

(27 May 1837), commanded by General

Alexandre Charles Perrégaux Alexandre Charles Perrégaux (21 October 1791 - 6 November 1837) was a French Army officer who participated in the French conquest of Algeria. Family Alexandre Charles Perrégaux was born in Neuchâtel on 21 October 1791, the second son of Ch ...

(1791-1837) and Colonel

Maximilien Joseph Schauenburg Maximilien Joseph Schauenburg (born in Saint Stephen's Church on 30 April 1784 and died in Paris on 19 September 1838) was a French officer who participated to the French conquest of Algeria. Family Born on 30 April 1784 in Saint Stephen's ...

(1784-1838). *

First Assault of Dellys The ''First Assault of Dellys'' in May 1837, during the French conquest of Algeria, opposed the troupes coloniales under Corvette captain Félix-Ariel d'Assigny (1794-1846) to the resistance fighters of the town of Dellys in Kabylia of the ''Iga ...

(28 May 1837), commanded by Captain

(1794-1846). * Second Assault of Dellys (12 May 1844), commanded by General

Thomas Robert Bugeaud Thomas Robert Bugeaud, marquis de la Piconnerie, duc d'Isly (15 October 178410 June 1849) was a Marshal of France and Governor-General of Algeria. Early life He was born at Limoges, a member of a noble family of Périgord (Occitania), the yo ...

(1784–1849).

Algerian Revolution

This commune saw the creation of several clandestine torture centers during the Algerian revolution: *

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in the commune of

Salafist terrorism

2007 Dellys bombing The 2007 Dellys bombing occurred on September 8, 2007, when at least 30 people were killed and 47 injured in a suicide car bomb attack on an Algerian naval barracks in the town of Dellys, 100 km (62 mi) east of Algiers. The blast was ca ...

(8 September 2007)

Notable people

Abderrahmane Abdelli Abderrahmane Abdelli (born April 2, 1958) is a Berber author, composer, and singer songwriter known for mixing the traditional North African music of his homeland with modern sounds. Biography Abdelli was born in Mechta Behalil, a hamlet in the ...

, musician * Habib Ayyoub, writer *

Abderrahmane Benhamida Abderrahmane Benhamida (born 21 October 1931 in Dellys, died 5 September 2010 in Algiers.) was an Algerian independence fighter and politician who served in the government of Algeria as Minister of National Education from 1962 to 1963. After the ...

, former Minister of Education *

Abderrahmane Hammad Abderrahmane Hammad Zaheer ( ar, عبدالرحمن حمٌاد, born May 27, 1977, in Dellys) is a former Algerian track and field athlete who competed in the high jump. He represented his country at the Summer Olympics in 2000, taking the bronze ...

, athlete * Mokhtar Hasbellaoui, doctor *

Abderrahman Ibrir Abderrahman Ibrir (10 November 1919 – 18 February 1988) was an Algerian football player and manager. Playing career Born in Dellys, Ibrir played club football in France for Bordeaux, Toulouse and Marseille. He also earned six caps for France ...

, footballer *

Rachid Nadji Rachid Nadji ( ar, رشيد ناجي; born 15 April 1988) is an Algerian footballer who plays as a striker for CA Batna. Career In 2014, Nadji joined USM Alger. In 2016, he returned to ES Sétif. In 2018, Nadji signes a two-year contract with ...

, footballer *

Sidi Yahya Sidi Yahya may refer to: People *Arabic name of John the Baptist, who is a prophet in Islam. *Sidi Yaya Keita, Malian footballer Places Morocco *Sidi Yahya El Gharb, town in Kénitra Province *Sidi Yahya Ou Youssef, commune in Khénifra Provin ...

al-Tadallisi al-Thaalibi, imam * Mu'izz ud-Dawla ibn Sumadih, ruler * , Algerian footballer.

References

Districts of Boumerdès Province {{Boumerdès-geo-stub