Tizi Ouzou

تيزي وزو; Tizi Ouzou
Coordinates	36 ° 43 ' N , 4 ° 3' E Coordinates: 36 ° 43 ' N , 4 ° 3' E
Basic data
Country	Algeria
province	Tizi Ouzou
ISO 3166-2	DZ-15
Residents	90,000
	Panorama Tizi Ouzou

Tizi Ouzou Kabyle Tizi Wezzu , Tifinagh script : ⵜⵉⵣⵉ ⵡⴻⵣⵣⵓ; ( Arabic تيزي وزو, DMG Tīzī Wuzū , literally "hill of gorse") is a city in Algeria between Bejaia and Algiers . It is the capital of the province of the same name and the seat of a university. The city has about 90,000 inhabitants and is considered the center of Kabylia and the cultural center of the Berbers in Algeria.

The place was first founded by the Ottomans , in 1858 it was expanded or re-established by French colonial troops. In 1890, Tizi-Ouzou received a railway connection to Algiers, which made a decisive contribution to the development of Tizi-Ouzou as a regional center.

After Algeria's independence from France (1962), Tizi-Ouzou also developed into a center of resistance by the Berbers against the increased Arabization of the country and against the emerging Islamic fundamentalism. After the Berber writer Mouloud Mammeri was banned from appearing at the university by the government on March 10, 1980, there was a student strike in March, which was followed by further protests and a general strike, until the state power took it hard in April serious unrest ensued (“Tizi Ouzou Spring” or “Berber Spring”). In the spring of 2001, the student and Berber activist Massinissa Guermah was arrested near Tizi-Ouzou and then died in police custody. This again led to serious unrest (“Black Spring”).

In the summer of 2014, the city made international headlines because the Cameroonian soccer player Albert Ebossé Bodjongo was so badly injured in the head during a game by a hooligan with a thrown object that he succumbed to his injuries shortly afterwards.

literature

Meyer's large pocket dictionary in 24 volumes . BI-Taschenbuchverlag, 1992, Volume 22, p. 128.
Jonathan Oaks: Algeria . Bradt Travel Guides, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84162-232-3 , p. 110 ( excerpt in the Google book search).

Web links

Commons : Tizi Ouzou - collection of images, videos and audio files

Tizi-Ouzou in the Encyclopædia Britannica

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Jonathan Oaks: Algeria . Bradt Travel Guides 2008, ISBN 978-1-84162-232-3 , p. 112.
^ Martin Stone: The Agony of Algeria . C. Hurst & Co. Publishers 1997, ISBN 1-85065-177-9 , pp. 61-62.
^ Richard I. Lawless, Allan M. Findlay: North Africa: Contemporary Politics and Economic Development . Taylor & Francis 1984, ISBN 0-7099-1609-4 , p. 34.
^ The Middle East and North Africa 2003 . Routledge 2002, ISBN 1-85743-132-4 , p. 170.

[Oaks-1] Jonathan Oaks: Algeria . Bradt Travel Guides 2008, ISBN 978-1-84162-232-3 , p. 112.

[2] Martin Stone: The Agony of Algeria . C. Hurst & Co. Publishers 1997, ISBN 1-85065-177-9 , pp. 61-62.

[3] Richard I. Lawless, Allan M. Findlay: North Africa: Contemporary Politics and Economic Development . Taylor & Francis 1984, ISBN 0-7099-1609-4 , p. 34.

[4] The Middle East and North Africa 2003 . Routledge 2002, ISBN 1-85743-132-4 , p. 170.