Aumale (, ''Awmāl'') is a former

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. It existed from 17 March 1958 to 7 November 1959. It was named after the town of Sour El-Ghozlane, which at the time was called ''Aumale'', after

Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale (16 January 1822 – 7 May 1897) was a leader of the Orleanists, a political faction in 19th-century France associated with constitutional monarchy. He was born in Paris, the fifth son of ...

. Considered as a French province, Algeria was departmentalised on 9 December 1848, and thereby was administratively structured in the same way as

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. Three civil zones ( départements) replaced the three beyliks into which the Ottoman former rulers had divided the territory. The middle of the three original Algerian

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was called Alger. In May 1957 the

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of Médéa, hitherto part of the department of Alger, was split off and became a separate département, directly to the south of the now much diminished département of Alger. This administrative reorganisation was undertaken in response to the rapid population increase experienced across the territory, especially during the preceding decade. One of the sub-prefectures of the new département of Médéa, Aumale (or Sūr-al-Ghuzlān), found itself promoted to the status of a separate department in May 1958. The département of Aumale contained three sub-prefectures: Bou Saâda,

Ouled Djellal Ouled Djellal is a town and commune in Biskra Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 45,622. more recent census says it has over 66,000 people. It is the second biggest city in the state of Biskra because of its pop ...

and Tablata. The new département of Aumale was short-lived. In November 1959 it ceased to exist and its territories subsumed into neighbouring departments. During its brief life, the département of Aumale was assigned the "suffix" number 9N, appearing on automobile license plates and the like. Today Aumale itself, more commonly known as Sour El-Ghozlane, is administered as part of

Bouïra Province Bouïra ( Kabyle: Tawilayt n Tuvirett, ar, ولاية البويرة, french: Wilaya de Bouira) is a province (''wilaya'') in the Kabylie region (also known as Tazwawa) in Algeria. History The province was created from parts of Médéa (dép ...

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le site du SPLAF
: départements de l'Algérie française de 1848 à 1962 Former departments of France in Algeria States and territories established in 1958 1958 establishments in Algeria 1959 disestablishments in Algeria {{Bouira-geo-stub

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