Mansourah ( ar, المنصورة - „victorious“) is a town and

commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...

Tlemcen Province Tlemcen ( ar, ولاية تلمسان) is a province (''wilaya'') in northwestern Algeria. The Tlemcen National Park is located there. History The province was created from Oran (department) and Tlemcen department in 1974. Administrative divi ...

in Northwestern

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. The town is the seat of Mansourah District.

Population

According to the 2008 census the town has population of 49,007 inhabitants and totally its commune has 49,150 inhabitants. The town is effectively a suburb of the provincial capital

Tlemcen Tlemcen (; ar, تلمسان, translit=Tilimsān) is the second-largest city in northwestern Algeria after Oran, and capital of the Tlemcen Province. The city has developed leather, carpet, and textile industries, which it exports through the p ...

. Mansourah and Tlemcen form together an intercommunal urban agglomeration with 173,531 inhabitants.

History

The settlement was founded by the

Marinids The Marinid Sultanate was a Berber Muslim empire from the mid-13th to the 15th century which controlled present-day Morocco and, intermittently, other parts of North Africa (Algeria and Tunisia) and of the southern Iberian Peninsula (Spain) ar ...

in 1303 AD as a fortified base for their siege of Tlemcen. The site quickly grew into a large city with tens of thousands of inhabitants.

Landmarks

The main landmark of Mansourah is the

Tlemcen National Park The Tlemcen National Park (Arabic:الحديقة الوطنية تلمسان) is one of the more recent national parks of Algeria. It is located in Tlemcen Province, named after Tlemcen, a city near this park. The park includes the forests of ''If ...

with the ruins of the fortified city and the

Mansourah Mosque Mansourah Mosque ( ar, مسجد المنصورة) is a ruined historic mosque in the city of Mansourah, Algeria, dates back to the Marinid dynasty. It consists of a part of the Mansourah Castle. The excavation has revealed regarding the design of ...

. They include parts of the walls of the city, better preserved walls of the castle and its leading tower.

Localities

The commune of Mansourah is composed of 8 localities (1984): *Mansourah *Imama *Béni Boublène *Wone Ouest *ZHUN Champ de tir *Kifan Sud-Ouest *Attar *Ouali Mustapha (Riat El Kébir)

References

Communes of Tlemcen Province {{Tlemcen-geo-stub