Tadjena ( ar, تدجنة) (formerly Fromentin) is a town in the

Dahra Dahra (also Dahra Djoloff or Dara) is a town of commune status located in the Louga Region of Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially ...

mountains in

Chlef Province Chlef ( ar, ولاية الشلف) is a province (''wilaya'') in Algeria formerly known as El Asnam, and has about 1 million inhabitants. Its capital is Chlef. Another locality is Ténès, on the Mediterranean Sea. History The province was origi ...

in central

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, with a population of about 23,000; its altitude is 438 m.

History

The settlement of Tadjena was originally named after

Eugene Fromentin Eugene may refer to: People and fictional characters * Eugene (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Eugene (actress) (born 1981), Kim Yoo-jin, South Korean actress and former member of the sin ...

, a French painter and poet who spent a lot of time in Algeria. The

Tadjena massacre The Tadjena massacre was an incident resulting in 81 deaths. Beginning about 9:00 p.m. on December 8 and continuing until early December 9, 1998, 81 villagers (45 according to the initial reports) were killed by armed groups in the mountain ...

in 1997 occurred in two villages nearby.

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