Bouira

Bouira (in Kabyle Tuvirets ) is an Algerian city, chief town of the Wilaya de Bouira in the south-west of the Kabylie. Its population is estimated at 85.000 inhabitants. It is located at approximately 110 km in the south-east of Algiers and the south of the chain of Djurdjura in the Tellian Atlas. With 525 meters of altitude, it is in the valley of the Sahel river which is dominated by Djebel Heidzer (Heidzer Mount, 2164 m) in north.

The Oléoduc transporting Saharan oil in Algiers passes there.

Ethymology

The name has two probable origins:

the first; before being inhabited, there was a source where the commercial populations came from Kabylie to be refreshed, and on several occasions lions would have attacked them as well as the pets from where the name of vou iranes (“the place of the lions”)
finally, according to one second version; the merchants noted that the grounds were always left in fallow, and were uncultivated in language plural kabyle tvour tuvirets .

History

The town of Bouira (Tuvirets) was set up in Bourgade in 1872 (stopped creation of the June 7th 1872) by the Gouverneur Admiral de Guydon, under the name of Coligny. This name was given to him at the time of the third centenary of died of Gaspard II of Coligny, admiral de France, one of the most famous members of the Maison of Coligny

It was high with the row of chief town of Wilaya after administrative cutting of 1974.

According to certain versions, the name given to the borough of Bouira is related to the existence of a well used at the time of the halt of the caravaneers.

The town of Bouira bore the name of Hamza Souk according to a conference of Mr. Mouloud Kacim Nait Belkacem. The first inhabitant of Bouira are those of the tribe of Ouled Bellil. This tribe always exists in Bouira

See too

Wilaya de Bouira

External bonds

Town of Raffour Bouira.
Population of the Algerian cities
Village Ath Hamdoune de Bouira.

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