Sidi-beautiful-Abbots

Sidi-beautiful-Abbots (Arab: سيديبلعباس), is a city of the North-West of the Algérie located at 83 Kilomètre S in the south of Oran. Chief town of Wilaya since 1974; area agricultural with some industries (mechanical, electronic, food), university of more than: 24000 students. The population is estimated at approximately: 300000 inhabitants (2004), which makes the 5th big city of the country of it.

The city was built by the French soldiers in 1843 on banks of the Mekerra, because it is about a strategic place and irrigated well. It is the captain of the Genious Prudon which drew the city. Like all the cities drawn by the military Engineering, Sidi-beautiful-Abbots was built on a Checkerboard plan with fortifications and doors with each corner. Its creation was officialized by a decree of the State dated January 5th 1849.

Its first name was Cookie-city then, in 1859, it takes the name of Beautiful-Abbots Napoleon a very short time to become Sidi-Beautiful-Abbots, the name of a saint Musulman whose kouba (fall) is on Right Bank of the Mekerra.

Today, there remain nothing any more the fortifications and the doors let pass from the avenues. Until the Independence of Algeria, Sidi-Beautiful-Abbots sheltered the head office of the Foreign legion, transferred to Aubagne in 1962 in accordance with the Accords from Evian.

Currently, the barracks is occupied, to some extent, by the school of the National police and, other, by the military medical school.

Anecdote The writer Ernst Jünger came in this city in 1912 after his short engagement in the Foreign legion at the age 17 years. He evoked this adventure and this city in his account African Jeux (1936).

Famous natives of Sidi Bel Abbès

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