Aïn El Hadjar, also known as عين الحجر, is a

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and commune in

Bouïra Province Bouïra (, ) is a province ('' wilaya'') in the Kabylie region (also known as Tazwawa) in Algeria. History The province was created from parts of Médéa (département) and Tizi-Ouzou department in 1974. Administrative divisions It is made ...

Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...

. The town is in the mountains, 10 km south of Saida and is services by Algerian Railways.

History

Aïn El Hadjar has been tentatively identified as the

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of Centuria (Numidia) in

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. During the French

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the town was known as Aboutville. In 1958, the city then named ''Aboutville'', was part of the former department of MEDEA After

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, it takes the name of Aïn El Hadjar. According to the 1998

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it has a population of 7,988.Statoids
/ref> by the 2008 Census this had increased to 9260 inhabitants.

References

Communes of Bouïra Province {{Bouira-geo-stub