Oued Zenati is a town and

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. According to the 1998 census it had a population of 27,254 which progressed to reach 55,000 in 2010.

History

During the Numidian era (399BC-50BC), the region was highly cultivated and protected by military points spread all over the place, still present today. The town's Early African Christian history is portrayed in the Eloa status in the town agora. Eloa, the angel of sorrow and compassion in

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is said to have been born from a tear

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shed. In

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's poem Eloa, we find Jesus at Lazarus' grave. He is deeply moved by the grief of

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and

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after losing their brother. So he sheds one heavenly tear, and Eloa is born.

Geography

It is located 40 km (to the West) from Guelma, 110 km of

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and 70 km from

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. Oued Zenati is also the name of a river in the commune. The village has an agricultural vocation, very poor industrially.

Related people

Taïeb Boulahrouf Taïeb Boulahrouf (9 April 1923 – 26 June 2005)Biography of Taïeb Boulahrouf

an Algerian politician, born in 1923

References

Communes of Guelma Province {{Guelma-geo-stub