Sétif
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سطيف ⵙⵉⵜⵉⴼⵉⵙ Sétif |
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| Coordinates | 36 ° 12 ' N , 5 ° 25' E | ||
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| Country | Algeria | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | Double room | ||
| height | 1100 m | ||
| Residents | 288,461 (2008) | ||
Sétif ( Arabic سطيف, DMG Saṭīf , tamazight ⵙⵉⵜⵉⴼⵉⵙ; also Stif ) is a medium-sized university town in north-eastern Algeria . It is located 300 km east of the capital Algiers and is the capital of the province of the same name .
geography
The city is located on a coastal plateau at 1100 m above sea level, between the Kabyle and the Atlas Mountains.
According to statistics published in January 2008, Sétif had 288,461 inhabitants. The name of the mayor is M. Aïssa Fellahi.
Sétif is twinned with the city of Rennes in France and has Sétif international airport .
climate
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Sètif Algeria
Source: World Meteorological Organization The climatological data are based on the monthly averages from 1976 to 2005
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history
At the time of the ancient Roman Empire , Sétif was the capital of the Roman province of Mauretania Sitifensis and was named Colonia Nerviana Augusta Martialis Veteranorum Sitifensium ( Sitifis ). In today's city, some buildings from the 3rd and 4th centuries have been preserved: city walls , basilicas , ancient amphitheater .
In the course of colonial occupation, Algeria not only became a colonial source of raw materials and a sales market for France, but also a large area of settlement for European settlers due to its proximity to the “motherland” . Sétif was initially only a sub-prefecture of the " Constantine " department established in 1848 , but was upgraded in 1956 to the administrative seat for one of the newly organized twelve French departments in Algeria.
Sétif and the neighboring towns of Guelma and Kherrata were the scene of the Sétif massacre on May 8, 1945, with a hard-to-estimate number of shot and executed Algerians - estimates range between 2000 and 45,000 - who responded to the militia-organized colonists and the French military Demands for an end to French colonial rule in Algeria fell victim. In today's historiography, the massacres are seen as the starting point for the Algerian war that began in 1954 .
Buildings, sights
The emblematic landmark of the city is the “Fontaine von Ain Fouara”, which the French sculptor Francis de Saint-Vidal completed in 1898.
sons and daughters of the town
- Mario Zatelli (1912-2004), French football player
- Abdelhamid Kermali (1931–2013), Algerian-French football player and coach
- Rachid Mekhloufi (* 1936), Algerian-French football player
- Denis Guedj (1940–2010), French mathematician, actor and writer
- Kheïreddine Madoui (* 1977), Algerian football player and coach
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 2008 census. Accessed April 17, 2019 (French).
- ↑ Mohamed Harbi: The Beginnings of the Algerian War, 2005
literature
- Teddy Alzieu: De Bougie à Sétif: à travers la Kabylie . A. Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2004, ISBN 2-84910-148-6
- E. Brossard: Essai on the constitution physique et géologique dei regions méridionales de la subdivision de Sétif (Algérie) . Paris 1868
- Roger Guéry: La nécropole orientale de Sitifis: fouilles de 1966–1967; (Sétif, Algérie) . (= Etudes d'antiquités africaines). Ed. du CNRS, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-222-03478-7
- Claude Lützelschwab: The premiers projets de colonies suisses en Algérie à la “Compagnie genevoise des Colonies suisses de Sétif”. Quelques aspects de la question migratoire en Suisse durant les années 1830–1850 , in: Swiss Journal of History , vol. 49, 1999 ( full text )
- Boucif Mekhaled: Chroniques d'un massacre: May 8, 1945; Sétif, Guelma, Kherrata . (= Au nom de la mémoire). Syros, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-84146-200-5
- Abdelaziz Zitouni: Contribution à l'étude de l'influence des brise-vent sur les facteurs climatiques et la production céréalière en Algérie: (région des hautes plaines de Sétif) . Dissertation, Paris, Université, 1991
