Béchar
Béchar (Arab: ولايةبشار) is a town of Algérie, located in the Wilaya de Béchar of which it is the place chief. The city is populated according to the calculation into 2005 of 251.657 inhabitants. It is located at the limit of the the Sahara, and its old name is Colomb-Béchar .
Béchar is more the big city in the west of the the Sahara and the administrative center of the Saoura. Its fast development is closely related to the presence of the Algerian army in particular along the border Morocco groin. Bechar is located at 80 km of the Moroccan border, to 1150 km of the capital Algiers, to 600 km of the sea and 852 km of Tindouf.
The town of Béchar a surface of: 5050 km ².
The university of Béchar gathers more than 13 specialities of which technological Sciences, Right and Management without forgetting the Arab Letters.
Béchar has an airport ( Bechar Leger , code AITA: CBH).
Geography
Béchar is surrounded by an assembly line:- Djebel Antar to 1953 m
- Djebel Grouz to 1835 m
- Djebel Béchar with 1206 Mr.
History
XVe - XVIIe century: Béchar, Tindouf and Touat are under the sovereignty of the Moroccan dynasty of the Saadiens;1903: the French general Lyautey occupies Colomb-Béchar in Moroccan territory and integrates it into the French department of Algeria.
It is near Béchar that the Général Leclerc found death the November 28th 1947 in the crash landing of sound B-25 Mitchell, at the time of a sandstorm during a round of inspection. It is supposed that the pilot is descended at low altitude to find reference marks geographical, but the plane struck the railway, not far from Colomb-Béchar. The 12 occupants of the apparatus are killed on the blow.
1963: after the independence of Algeria, Morocco asserts without success the provinces of Bechar and Tindouf, which started the Guerre of sands between the two countries.
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