Department of Oran

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The department of Oran was a French Département between 1848 and 1962.

Regarded as French province, the Algérie was departmentalized the December 9th 1848. The departments created on this date were it starting from the civil zones of the three beyliks of the State of recently conquered Algiers. Consequently, the town of Oran was made prefecture of the department bearing its name, covering the west of Algeria then, leaving in the east the Département of Algiers, him even in the west of that of Constantine.

The department of Oran covered 67.262 km ² then and was divided into several districts with the passing of years, with the creation of sub-prefectures, Mascara, Mostaganem, and Tlemcen, to which were added Sidi-beautiful-Abbots in 1875 and Tiaret in 1939.

It is only in the Années 1950 that the the Sahara was annexed in departmentalized Algeria, which explains why the department of Oran limited itself to what is the North-West of Algeria today. However, the two Western territories of the south were, until January 10th, 1957 and the creation of the common organization of the Saharan areas, managed by the department of Oran.

Reorganization and independence

January 28th 1956, an administrative reform aiming at taking account of the demographic strong growth that the country had known divides the department into four parts, which became the May 20th 1957 the Department of Oran, the Département of Mostaganem, the Département of Tiaret and the Département of Tlemcen, cutting down the department by Oran of its Western and Eastern wings. A last territorial modification intervened on August 17th, 1958 with the creation of the department of Saïda starting from the departments of Tiaret, Oran and Saoura.

The new department of Oran covered 16.438 km ² then, was populated of 851.190 inhabitants, and had four sub-prefectures, Ain Témouchent, Perrégaux, Sidi-beautiful-Abbots, and Telagh.

The department of Oran is maintained after the independence of the Algérie, and becomes the Wilaya d' Oran by the ordinance of 1968.

Demography

According to the terms of the census of 1954, the department of Oran in its borders according to 1957 (including the district of Telagh, which was temporarily attached to Saïda) then counted 851.190 inhabitants, including 564.042 Moslems and 287.148 not-Moslems, that is to say 66,3% of Moslems.

These figures, which turn into to department of Oran the department where the population of European stock was established, mask however a certain inequality by Arrondissement. Indeed, in the district of Oran even, nonthe Moslems were slightly majority, single case in the whole of the Algérie: On 402.200 inhabitants, 204.393 were not Moslems against 197.807 Moslems, that is to say 50,82% of nonMoslems.

See too

List of the French departments of Algeria

External bonds

Chart of the department in its borders of before 1956
the site of the SPLAF: departments of French Algeria of 1848 to 1962

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