Sidi Ghiles ( Arabic: سيدي غيلاس; formerly ''Novi'' during the French colonization) is a town on Algeria's Mediterranean coast. The municipality of Novi is located about west of Tipasa and southwest of

Cherchell Cherchell (Arabic: شرشال) is a town on Algeria's Mediterranean coast, west of Algiers. It is the seat of Cherchell District in Tipaza Province. Under the names Iol and Caesarea, it was formerly a Roman colony and the capital of the k ...

. This agricultural locality is from

Algiers Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques ...

. Novi, renowned for its fertile soil, vineyards and wines, is located by the sea. It is a modern village despite its traditionally typical so-called "colonization" villages with its well-traced streets, airy, lined with houses and villas resplendent with whiteness. An agricultural colony, Novi was originally managed by the military authority and founded by decree of the National Assembly of 19 September 1848 and by order of the Minister of War Louis Juchault de Lamoricière (1806-1865) on September 27 of the same year. It is one of the first seven centers of colonization created in Algeria.

Names

After the independence of Algeria on July 5, 1962, the town of Novi became known as Sidi Ghiles.

History

Inhabitation

Located in the middle of the Algerian vineyards between the sea and mountains, Sidi Ghiles' initial population was mainly made up of the political deportees of 1848, and became an annex of

. It was, then, a municipality that covered an area of with a population of 1,047 inhabitants including 423 French. Most of the other inhabitants were native

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indigenous to the surrounding hills and

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. In 1903, Mayor Léon Roseau gave Novi a school group. In 1908, some owners grouped themselves to create a co-operative wine cellar of whose notabilty has crossed the borders of North Africa.

The department

The department of

is one of the French departments of Algeria, which existed between 1848 and 1962. Considered a French province, Algeria was departmentalized on December 9, 1848. The departments created on that date were the civil zone of the three provinces corresponding to the Beyliks of the regency of Algiers then recently conquered. Therefore, the city of Algiers was made the prefecture of the department bearing its name, then covering the center of Algeria, leaving to the east the department of Constantine and to the west the department of Oran. On January 28, 1956, an administrative reform to take account ofstrong population growth, separated the department of Algiers from its hinterland, creating on May 20, 1957, three additional departments: Médéa, Orleansville and Tizi Ouzou. The district of Cherchell, in the department of Orleansville, consisted of eight localities: Bouyamine,

, Genoa Fountain, Gouraya, Marceau (

Menaceur Menaceur is a small town and commune in Algeria, situated about 100 km west of Algiers Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's popul ...

), Novi, Villbourg and Zurich ( Sidi Amar).
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The emigration

On August 11, 1962, 293 of the 300 Frenchmen of Novi left by boat for Marseille, under the protection of the French army.

References

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