Department of Tizi-Ouzou
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The department of Tizi-Ouzou was a French Département between 1957 and 1962.
Regarded since the March 4th 1848 as integral part of the French territory, the Algérie was administratively organized same manner as the metropolis. Thus during a hundred years, the town of Tizi-Ouzou was a sub-prefecture of the Département of Algiers, and this until June 28th 1956. On this date the aforementioned department was divided into four parts, in order to answer the important increase in the Algerian population during the past years.
The old department of Algiers was dissolved on May 20th 1957 and its four parts were transformed into full departments. The department of Tizi-Ouzou was thus created on this date, and covered a surface of 5.806 km ² on which 800.892 inhabitants resided and had six sub-prefectures, Azazga, Bordj-Menaïel, Bouïra, Dra-el-Mizan, Extremely-National and Palestro.
The department of Tizi-Ouzou was maintained after the independence of Algeria, and became the Wilaya de Tizi-Ouzou.
See too
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List of the French departments of Algeria
External bonds
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the site of the SPLAF: departments of Algeria
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