Béthioua
Béthioua ( Arabic بطيوة, formerly Arzew , under French colonial rule Vieil Arzew , then called Saint-Leu ) is a city in the province of Oran in northwestern Algeria . It has gas pipelines, petrochemical plants and desalination plants.
The city of Arzew arose on the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Portus Magnus . Until July 1834, Vieil Arzew consisted of a few hundred dilapidated houses, the 400 inhabitants came from Berber tribes from Morocco. When the French approached the city, Abd el-Kader took them and drove the residents inland. In 1846 the French founded a settlement in Vieil Arzew and named it Saint-Leu.
During the British-American invasion of French North Africa in November 1942 ( Operation Torch ) , during the Second World War , American troops who captured Oran landed on “Beach Z”, the coastal strip between Arzew and Saint-Leu.
Since the independence of Algeria in 1962, Saint-Leu has been called Béthioua.
literature
- Leonard Chiarelli: Arzew (Ārzāw). In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam . 3rd edition, Vol. 2, Leiden 2009, p. 110 ( PDF )
- Metzmacher, M. (1979 a). Les oiseaux de la Macta et de sa region (Algérie): Non passereaux. Aves , 3-4: 89-123.
Individual evidence
- ^ The Pfennig magazine of the society for the spread of non-profit knowledge , Volume 9, No. 405–456, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1841. pp. 245–247. ( The cities of Algeria in google book search)
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Coordinates: 35 ° 48 ′ N , 0 ° 16 ′ W