Ech Cheliff
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الشلف ⵛⵛⵍⴻⴼ Ech Cheliff |
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| Coordinates | 36 ° 10 ′ N , 1 ° 20 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Algeria | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | DZ-02 | ||
| Residents | 235,000 (2005) | ||
Ech Cheliff (also Ech-Cheliff , El-Asnam , El Asnam , formerly Orléansville in French ; Arabic الشلف asch-Schalif , DMG aš-Šalif orالأصنام al-Asnām , DMG al-Aṣnām , tamazight ⵛⵛⵍⴻⴼ Cclef ) is a city in northern Algeria with about 235,000 (2005) inhabitants. It is located in the province of Chlef , of which it is the capital.
The university town forms the center of a rich region in which intensive agriculture is practiced.
history
The Romans founded Ech Cheliff as a settlement called Castellum Tingitanum . In 1843 the French discovered the city and turned it into a military outpost. The name was Orléansville . An earthquake destroyed the city in 1954. Ten years later, in 1964, it was renamed El Asnam as part of Algeria's independence . Around 5000 people (according to other sources up to 20,000) died in 1980 in another earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter scale . El Asnam was almost completely destroyed in this earthquake and was rebuilt elsewhere not far from the old city center. A year later, the city was renamed Ech Cheliff to avoid being associated with the natural disaster.
Daughters and sons of the city
- Paul Robert (1910–1985), French Romance philologist and lexicographer
- Abdelkader Ben Bouali (1912–1997), football player
- Radouane Abbes (* 1965), football player
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Natural disasters in Algeria ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
