Djelfa ( ar, ولاية الجلفة) is a

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wilaya A wilayah ( ar, وَلاية, wālāya or ''wilāya'', plural ; Urdu and fa, ولایت, ''velâyat''; tr, vilayet) is an administrative division, usually translated as "state", "province" or occasionally as "governorate". The word comes fr ...

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Djelfa Djelfa ( ar, الجلفة, link=no, al-Ǧilfah) is the capital city of Djelfa Province, Algeria and the site of ancient city and former bishopric Fallaba, which remains a Latin catholic titular see. It has a population of 490,248 (2018 census). T ...

. It was first established by the administrative reorganization of 1974, and is home to over 1.2 million inhabitants. Localities in this province include Tadmit, El Khemis, and Selmana.

History

The province was created from parts of Batna (département),

Médéa (département) Médéa is a former French ''département'' in Algeria which existed between 1957 and 1974. Reorganization Considered as a French province, Algeria was departmentalised on 9 December 1848, and thereby was administratively structured in the same wa ...

Oasis department In ecology, an oasis (; ) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environment'ksar''with its surrounding feeding source, the palm grove, within a relational and circulatory nomadic system.” The location of oases has been of critical imp ...

and Tiaret department in 1974.

Administrative division

The province is made up of 12 districts, which are further divided into 36 ''communes'' or municipalities.

Districts

# Aïn El Ibil #

Aïn Oussera Aïn Oussera or Aïn Oussara ( ar, عين وسارة) is a city in Djelfa Province, Algeria, with an estimated (2005) population of 134,174. It is the district seat of the Aïn Oussera District. This city, located 200 km south of the capital A ...

# Birine #

Charef Charef is a town and commune in Djelfa Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it had a population of 19,373. Language The most commonly spoken language is Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily ...

# Dar Chioukh #

# El Idrissia # Faidh El Botma #

Had Sahary Had-Sahary is a town and commune in Djelfa Province, Algeria ) , image_map = Algeria (centered orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Algiers , coordin ...

# Hassi Bahbah # Messaâd # Sidi Ladjel

Communes

References

External links

Official website

Djelfa Forums

Nfaes network Portal & Forums

Djelfa - la capitale de la Steppe
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