Guelma

قالمة ⴳⴰⵍⵎⴰ Guelma
Coordinates	36 ° 28 ′  N , 7 ° 26 ′  E Coordinates: 36 ° 28 ′  N , 7 ° 26 ′  E
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Basic data
Country	Algeria
province	Guelma
Residents	120,004 (2008 Census)

Guelma ( Arabic قالمة, DMG Qālima , tamazight ⴳⴰⵍⵎⴰ Galma ) is a medium-sized university town in north-eastern Algeria with 157,334 inhabitants (as of 2012). It is located 600 km east of the capital Algiers and is the capital of the province of Guelma of the same name .

geography

The city lies in a depression that opens up in the Atlas Mountains and that is crossed by the Seybouse.

history

Guelma, the antique Calama, is one of the oldest cities in the country. Punic, Numidian and Roman influences can be proven.

On May 8, 1945, Guelma and the neighboring towns of Sétif and Kherrata were the scene of the Guelma, Sétif and Kharata massacres with 45,000 shot or executed Algerians, committed by the French colonial military in response to calls for an end to French colonial rule in Algeria.

On the occasion of the country's independence in 1962, an ancient Roman temple was destroyed by the FLN under the aegis of local Islamic dignitaries.

Buildings, sights

• Museum in the Roman Theater
• Roman thermal baths
• Roknia
• Thibilis
• Hammam Meskoutine
• Seybouse
• Maouna
• Djebel Debagh
• Hammam Bradaa
• Ghar e'Said in Djebel Taya
• Ghar el'Djemaa in the Djebel Taya

sons and daughters of the town

• Possidius. Late antique bishop of Calama. Biographer and friend of St. Augustine of Hippo
• Houari Boumedienne (1927–1978), politician and Algerian head of state (1965–1978)
• Abdelmalek Ziaya (* 1984), football player

Associated with Guelma

• Bettina Heinen-Ayech (1937–2020), German painter, lived in Guelma since 1963
• Erwin Bowien (1899–1972), German painter and author. Visited his master student Bettina Heinen-Ayech several times and painted numerous motifs in and around Guelma.

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  Guelma, exit from Héliopolis

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  City center, Mohamed Abdous School in the foreground and March 19th Square.

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  Guelma, March 19th Square and the seat of Willaya.

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  Guelma, farm school.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Martin Evans: Algeria - France's undeclared war , Oxford, 2012, p. 331
2. ^ Hans-Karl Pesch: Erwin Bowien . Ed .: Bettina Heinen-Ayech and the Freundeskreis Erwin Bowien eV 1st edition. Solingen 1980.

Web links

Commons : Guelma  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Office de tourisme Guelma et sa region
• Image platform of the city of Guelma and its region