Medea (city)
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المدية ⵎⴷⵉⵢⵢⴰ Medea |
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| Coordinates | 36 ° 16 ′ 3 ″ N , 2 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
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| Country | Algeria | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | DZ-26 | ||
| height | 1036 m | ||
| surface | 63.5 km² | ||
| Residents | 145,441 (2008) | ||
| density | 2,290.4 Ew. / km² | ||
 Cityscape of Medea
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Medea ( Arabic المدية, Kabyle ⵎⴷⵉⵢⵢⴰ ) is an Algerian city and capital of the province . Medea is 68 kilometers south of Algiers .
history
Today's city is located on the site of an ancient Roman military base called ad Medix or Media (Latin "halfway"), so named because it is equidistant from Tirinadi (Berrouaghia) and Sufnsar (Amourah), a resting place in the Mauretania Province Caesariensis , located on the road between the capital Caesarea and the colony of Auzia .
During the Roman Empire there was a settlement called Lamdia in the area of Medea . At that time the city of Lamdia was the seat of an old Christian diocese of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis. Only one bishop of the city is known. The Donatist Felix took part in the Religious Discussion of Carthage in 411 . The city itself did not have a Catholic bishop at the time. Today Lamdia is a titular bishopric of the Roman Church and the current bishop is Marian Eleganti , auxiliary bishop of Chur .
After the defeat of the Berbers in the 11th century, Arab tribes of the Banū Hilāl and Banū Sulaim were settled in the region , who mixed with the local Berbers and Arabized them.
Medea was the capital of the Titteri province, founded in 1548. A Bey , deputy of the Dey of Algiers, had his seat there. The last Bey Mostefa Boumezrag led it from 1819 to 1830 when the French arrived. In 1837, after the Treaty of Tafna, Medea became one of the capitals of the part of Algeria ruled by Abd el-Kader . But this was occupied by the French when they finally conquered all of Algeria. Until 1962 Medea was a garrison town of the French army.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georges Bouchet: geographie de l'afrique du nord, le titteri des francais. January 20, 2009, accessed December 18, 2017 (French).
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Lamdia Algeria. GCatholic.org, December 14, 2017, accessed December 18, 2017 .
- ^ François Decret: Les invasions hilaliennes en Ifrîqiya. Clio - Voyage Culturel, September 1, 2003, accessed December 18, 2017 (French).
