Bougara is a town in the
Mitidja
Mitidja, (Arabic: , Berber: Mettijet ⵎⴻⵜⵙⵉⵛⵝ) is a plain stretching along the outskirts of Algiers in northern Algeria
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, about 20 kilometers due south of
Algiers
Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques ...
. Located on the N29, the main road between
Blida
Blida ( ar, البليدة; Berber languages, Tamazight: Leblida) is a city in Algeria. It is the capital of Blida Province, and it is located about 45 km south-west of Algiers, the national capital. The name ''Blida'', i.e. ''bulaydah'' ...
and
Larbaâ, it is the capital of
Bougara District
Bougara is a district in Blida Province, Algeria. It was named after its capital, Bougara.
Municipalities
The district is further divided into 3 municipalities
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate statu ...
, in
Blida Province
Blida ( ar, ولاية البليدة) is a provinces of Algeria, province (''wilaya'') in Algeria. Its capital is Blida. The Chréa National Park is situated here.
History
The province was created from parts of Alger (department) and El Asnam d ...
. In 1998 it had a population of 34,100.
Previously, under French rule, it was called ''Rovigo''; it can be found with this name o
this excerptfrom the 1962 Michelin map of Algeria. The French name was chosen to honour the
Duc de Rovigo who was commander-in-chief of the French army in Algeria from December 1831 to April 1833, when he was recalled due to the overtly violent nature of his repressive regime. Post cards of the town under French rule can be see
here
There are the saline thermal springs at Hammam-Mélouane, eight kilometers south-west of the town. An old postcard showing the baths complex can be see
here
British Army troops were billeted on French-owned farms outside Bougara in the Autumn of 1943.
In 1946, the
Haganah
Haganah ( he, הַהֲגָנָה, lit. ''The Defence'') was the main Zionist paramilitary organization of the Jewish population ("Yishuv") in Mandatory Palestine between 1920 and its disestablishment in 1948, when it became the core of the ...
, the pre-state Zionist military, had a training camp near Bougara.
On June 4, 1957
Edouard Samson, president of the délégation spéciale or mayor of Bougara, was arrested in the town by the
DST
Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight savings time or simply daylight time (United States, Canada, and Australia), and summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks (typicall ...
for collusion with the
FLN.
Famous people who were born in Bougara include two liberal
pied noir
The ''Pieds-Noirs'' (; ; ''Pied-Noir''), are the people of French and other European descent who were born in Algeria during the period of French rule from 1830 to 1962; the vast majority of whom departed for mainland France as soon as Alg ...
writers,
Jules Roy
Jules Roy (22 October 1907 – 15 June 2000) was a French writer. "Prolific and polemical" Roy, born an Algerian pied noir and sent to a Roman Catholic seminary, used his experiences in the French colony and during his service in the Royal Air For ...
(born there in 1907) and
Jean Pélégri (born there in 1920
). The grave of Roy's mother is at the village of
Sidi Moussa, about eight kilometres north of Bougara, which is where Roy was reared, on his maternal grandparents' farm.
References
Populated places in Blida Province
Blida Province
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