Frenda

Frenda is a town of Algérie, to 209 km in the south of Oran. Frenda means in Berbère ( tamazight ): “hidden here” ( Ifren Dha ).

Origin

Frenda wants to say to hide here into Berber yefrendhaye which rises from not from the Berber dynasty from the Banou Ifren yefrendye or ifrendi or ifrénite. The Magraoua and the Banou Ifren lived these grounds, these two large tribes desendent of Berber Isliten ancètre. All the areas of Tiaret and Tlemcen and Mostaganem and Chlef were respectively the capitals of these two forgotten dynasties of the Berber history. it is the kingdom Zénètien. The Banou mérin or Mérinide and the Abou el Ouad formed two dynasties Berber zénètienne in this area of 1300 to 1397.

The name of Frenda this Ancient village of the high plateaus, contemporary of Rome and Carthage evokes without hesitation, the secular caves of Taghazout, the famous mausoleums of Djedars, the vault of CEN of Donatistes (Vestiges of Ain Sbiba).

Frenda also owes its celebrity with her jealously educated offspring whom it succeeded in working in moulds designed of her own hands through the ages.

Population

The Ville of Frenda is the place chief of Daïra of 104.000 inhabitants who includes/understands several communes:

Frenda 54.000 Inhabitants
Ain El Hadid 16.000 Inhabitants
Takhmaret 34.000 Inhabitants

One distinguishes in the common from Frenda several tribes of which:

Hawareths made up of Ouled Khalouf, Ouled Djebara, Ouled Maarfia and Ouled Soualem
Khalafas established in Louhou and Medroussa
Chorfas (Noble) composed of Djeblias, Ouled Sidi Amar and Ouled Sidi Abdeldjebbar.
Ouled Sidi Ahmed Ben Daoud (Native of Ain Defla) followers of the Saint Sidi Ahmed Benyoucef de Miliana

Famous names

Edgar Stoebel (1909-2001), born in Frenda
Jacques Berque (1910-1995), born in Frenda
Ibn Khaldoun born with Tunis in 1332, It is resulting from an Yemeni Arab family established in Andalusia as of VIIIe century, then emigrated in Tunis. He studied closely the phenomena of political and social disintegration of the the Maghreb and the Andalusia. Wearied political intrigues, it took refuge, during four years, with its family, near the tribe of Aouled Arif, (Qalaa de Beni Salama) in Frenda

There it was devoted to the writing of its monumental works: The Muqaddima (Prolégomènes or Speech on the universal history). Through the works which to him are devoted the city of Frenda (Qalaa de Beni Salama or Taghzout) is evoked by the authors who are interested in the scholar Ibn Khaldoun.

External bonds

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