The Béjaïa Province ( Kabyle: ''Tawilayt n Bgayet''; ar, ولاية بجاية, Latn, ar, Wilāyat Bijāyah; french: wilaya de Béjaïa or ) is a

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

Algeria ) , image_map = Algeria (centered orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Algiers , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , relig ...

in the

Kabylie Kabylia ('' Kabyle: Tamurt n Leqbayel'' or ''Iqbayliyen'', meaning "Land of Kabyles", '','' meaning "Land of the Tribes") is a cultural, natural and historical region in northern Algeria and the homeland of the Kabyle people. It is part of the ...

region. The province's capital city is

Béjaïa Béjaïa (; ; ar, بجاية‎, Latn, ar, Bijāya, ; kab, Bgayet, Vgayet), formerly Bougie and Bugia, is a Mediterranean port city and commune on the Gulf of Béjaïa in Algeria; it is the capital of Béjaïa Province, Kabylia. Béjaïa is ...

, the terminus of the

Béni Mansour-Bejaïa line The Béni Mansour-Béjaïa line is an Algerian railway connecting the Soummam River valley to the Algiers-Skikda line over 88 kilometers. The line was opened in full in 1899. History During French Algeria, plans were made to connect Béja ...

Gouraya National Park The national park of Gouraya ( ar, الحديقة الوطنية قورايا) is one of the coastal national parks of Algeria. It is located in Béjaïa Province, near the shrine of Sidi Touati. History The park became an Algerian National ...

is located in Béjaïa Province. A population of an

endangered An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction. Endangered species may be at risk due to factors such as habitat loss, poaching and inva ...

primate Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians (monkeys and apes, the latter including huma ...

species, the

Barbary macaque The Barbary macaque (''Macaca sylvanus''), also known as Barbary ape, is a macaque species native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco, along with a small introduced population in Gibraltar. It is the type species of the ...

, is found within the park; this primate has a severely restricted and disjunctive range.C. Michael Hogan. 2008
''Barbary Macaque: Macaca sylvanus'', Globaltwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Stromberg

History

The province was created from the

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

in 1974.

Administrative divisions

The province is divided into 19

districts A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

(''

daïra A daïra or daerah ( ''circle''; plural ''dawaïr'') is an administrative division in Algeria and Western Sahara in West Africa, as well as Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia in Southeast Asia. It is commonly translated in English as "district". West ...

s''), which are further divided into 52 ''communes'' or municipalities.

Districts

Communes

# Adekar # Aït-Rizine # Aït-Smail # Akbou # Akfadou # Amalou # Amizour # Aokas #

Barbacha Barbacha is a small region containing 34 separate villages in northern Algeria in the region of Kabylie. The population is mainly composed of indigenous Amazigh people from the Kabyle tribe. History Following the 2001 Black Spring in Algeria, ...

Beni Djellil Beni Djellil or Aït Djellil (kabyle: Ath Jlil) is a town located in Kabylie in northern Algeria ) , image_map = Algeria (centered orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capita ...

# Beni Ksila # Beni Maouche #

Beni Mellikeche At Mlikec is a town and commune in northern Algeria ) , image_map = Algeria (centered orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Algiers , coordinates ...

# Boudjellil # Bouhamza # Boukhelifa #

Chelata Chelata is a town in northern Algeria ) , image_map = Algeria (centered orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Algiers , coordinates = , ...

# Chemini # Darguina # Draâ El-Kaïd # El-Flaye # El-Kseur # Feraoun # Ifenain Ilmathen # Ighil Ali #

Ighram Ighram is a town and commune of Kabylie in northern Algeria. The town is located on the Soummam, on its left bank. It is located south-west of the wilaya of Bejaia, a distance of more than 70 km from the provincial capital and less than 5& ...

Kendira Kendira is a town in northern Algeria ) , image_map = Algeria (centered orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Algiers , coordinates = , ...

# Kherrata # Melbou # Msisna # Oued Ghir # Ouzellaguen # Seddouk # Semaoune # Sidi-Aïch # Sidi-Ayad # Sidi-Saïd # Souk El-Thenine # Souk-Oufella #

Tala Hamza Tala Hamza is a town in northern Algeria ) , image_map = Algeria (centered orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Algiers , coordinates = ...

Tamokra Tamokra is a small town in the Kabylie region in northern Algeria, it is a part of the province of Béjaïa Béjaïa (; ; ar, بجاية‎, Latn, ar, Bijāya, ; kab, Bgayet, Vgayet), formerly Bougie and Bugia, is a Mediterranean port city ...

# Tamridjet # Taourit Ighil # Taskriout #

Tazmalt Tazmalt is a town in northern Algeria. It's about 85 km south west of Bejaia, 50 km at east of Bouira, 55 km south east of Tizi Ouzou, and 165 km south east of the capital Algiers. Tazmalt is the biggest city of Sahel-Djurdjura re ...

# Tinabdher # Tibane # Tichy # Tifra # Timezrit # Tizi N'Berber # Toudja

References

External links

The first website of Bgayet Béjaïa Bougie and his region

Official website of Béjaïa Province
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bejaia Province Kabylie Provinces of Algeria States and territories established in 1974