Zemmouri El Bahri is a village in the
Boumerdès Province in
Kabylie,
Algeria.
Location
The village is surrounded by
Keddache River and the towns of
Thénia
Thénia (), sometimes written as ''Thenia'', with around 40,000 inhabitants, is the chief town in the daïra of the same name, in the wilaya of Boumerdès, in northern Algeria. Historically, the name is a contraction of ''Theniet Beni Aicha'' ...
and
Zemmouri in the ''Khachna'' mountain range.
History
French conquest
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Expedition of the Col des Beni Aïcha (1837)
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First Battle of the Issers (1837)
Algerian Revolution
Salafist terrorism
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2008 Zemmouri bombing
The 2008 Zemmouri bombing occurred on August 9, 2008 when a suicide bomber drove and detonated a vehicle laden with explosives into the headquarters of the Gendarmerie Nationale in the town of Zemmouri, Boumerdès Province, Algeria killing 8 an ...
(9 August 2008)
Notable people
References
Villages in Algeria
Boumerdès Province
Kabylie
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