Aumale (, ''Awmāl'') is a former French ''

département In the administrative divisions of France, the department (french: département, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivity, territorial collectivities"), between the regions of France, admin ...

'' in

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. It existed from 17 March 1958 to 7 November 1959. It was named after the town of

Sour El-Ghozlane Sour El-Ghozlane (or Souk El Ghoziane) is a town and commune in Algeria's central-northern, just-landlocked Bouïra Province. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 42,179. History Pre Historic A prehistoric tool (biface) testifyi ...

, 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 K ...

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

metropolitan France Metropolitan France (french: France métropolitaine or ''la Métropole''), also known as European France (french: Territoire européen de la France) is the area of France which is geographically in Europe. This collective name for the European ...

. Three civil zones (

départements A department (, ) is an administrative or political division in several countries. Departments are the first-level divisions of 11 countries, nine in the Americas and two in Africa. An additional 10 countries use departments as second-level div ...

) replaced the three

bey Bey ( ota, بك, beğ, script=Arab, tr, bey, az, bəy, tk, beg, uz, бек, kz, би/бек, tt-Cyrl, бәк, translit=bäk, cjs, пий/пек, sq, beu/bej, sh, beg, fa, بیگ, beyg/, tg, бек, ar, بك, bak, gr, μπέης) is ...

liks into which the Ottoman former rulers had divided the territory. The middle of the three original Algerian departments 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, :fr:Sour El-Ghozlane, Aumale (or Sūr-al-Ghuzlān), found itself promoted to the status of a separate department in May 1958. The département of Aumale contained three Subprefectures in France, sub-prefectures: Bou Saâda, Ouled Djellal 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.

References

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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