Taourga (تاورقة Arabic, Berber ⵜⴰⵡⴻⵔⴳⴰ) 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 ...

in the

Baghlia District Baghlia is a district in Boumerdès Province, Algeria. It was named after its capital, Baghlia. Municipalities The district is further divided into 3 municipalities: *Baghlia *Sidi Daoud * Taourga History French conquest * Shipwreck of Delly ...

Boumerdès Province Boumerdès ( ar, ولاية بومرداس, Kabyle: Tanebḍit n Bumerdas) is a province ('' wilaya'') of northern Algeria, located in the Kabylia region, between Algiers and Tizi-Ouzou, with its capital at the coastal city of Boumerdès (form ...

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. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 7,303.

Name

The name of the commute is of

Berber Berber or Berbers may refer to: Ethnic group * Berbers, an ethnic group native to Northern Africa * Berber languages, a family of Afro-Asiatic languages Places * Berber, Sudan, a town on the Nile People with the surname * Ady Berber (1913–196 ...

origin and means "anthill".

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 The Second Assault of Dellys was an assault by troupes coloniales under General Thomas Robert Bugeaud (1784–1849) against the Algerian resistance fighters in the town of Dellys, Kabylia of the ''Igawawen''. It was part of the French conquest o ...

(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

Geography

The town is almost mountainous terrain. The town includes the following villages: Beni Attar El Djemaa, Bouhbachou, Boudchicha, Tingrine Ain-El-Kodia, Mazer, Laghdaïr, Wadi Farms and H'lal north on the road to Dellys.

Algeria Post

The postal code of Taourga has gone through several stages since the colonial era to the present. Before the administrative division of Algeria in 1984, the postal code was 15000 But after this, Taourga was attached to the wilaya of Boumerdes bearing number 35. Therefore, the postal code of Taourga taken to the generic digital form 351xxx five digits. Finally, the city received Taourga number 0 giving the postal code 35140. But in 2008, Taourga received a new postal code of 350 294.

Water supplies

This town has several small dams and a seawater desalination plant as well as several boreholes and wells. This town is crossed by several

wadi Wadi ( ar, وَادِي, wādī), alternatively ''wād'' ( ar, وَاد), North African Arabic Oued, is the Arabic term traditionally referring to a valley. In some instances, it may refer to a wet (ephemeral) riverbed that contains water onl ...

s: * Dam Thénia 30 000 m³. * Dam of El Merdjet Feïat: 50 000 m³. * Dam of El Allal: 60,000 m³ * Dam Chender: 1700000 m³. * Dam Djinet: 2800000 m³. * Dam Sidi Daoud: 3700000 m³ * Beni Amrane Dam: 13.1 million m³. * Dam Hamiz: 16,280,000 m³. * Keddara dam Bouzegza: 145,600,000 m³. * Barrage Oued Djemaa: 176 000 000 M³ The town is serviced by Tala Hydroelectric Power Station Ouranim.

History

During

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and the

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, Tigisis was located near present-day Taourga. It was ruled by the

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s, and

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s before falling into obscurity during the Muslim conquest of the area.Procopius. Vandal. ii. 13. In January 1985, Taourga was raised to the commune level. It had been a village administratively connected to the town of

Baghlia Baghlia (Arabic بغلية) is a town and commune in the Baghlia District of Boumerdès Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 15,854. During the colonial period, it was given the name of Rébeval, after Napoleonic ...

, located a dozen kilometers to the west.

Economy

École de Aïn Tounga Various types of farms out there. The town is famous for its olive oil, mountain agriculture is practiced. The town is well known for its

viticulture Viticulture (from the Latin word for ''vine'') or winegrowing (wine growing) is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes. It is a branch of the science of horticulture. While the native territory of ''Vitis vinifera'', the common grape vine, ran ...

producing

Cardinal Cardinal or The Cardinal may refer to: Animals * Cardinal (bird) or Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds **''Cardinalis'', genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae **''Cardinalis cardinalis'', or northern cardinal, the ...

(Red Grape), Dattier grapes, Dabouki (Sabel), Saltana, Muscat grape, Red globe grape, and Victoria grape, as well as Hmar bou Amar and Chasselas grapes.

Notable people

Rezki Zerarti Rezki Zerarti (born 24 July 1938) is an Algerian painter. Biography Rezki Zerarti was born in 1938 in Taourga within lower Kabylia during the period of French Algeria, and he left during the Algerian War in 1959 to the town of Aix-en-Provence ...

, Algerian artist. * , Algerian footballer.

References

Communes of Boumerdès Province Cities in Algeria {{Boumerdès-geo-stub