mercredi 20 août 2014

Tourism in Algeria Laghouat

Laghouat

The wilaya of Laghouat (Arabic: ولاية الأغواط) has the capital city of the same name. Located in the heart of the country 400 miles south of the capital Algiers, the province covers an area of ​​25,000 km ². Pastoral region of Algeria, it also has the largest natural gas field in Africa with an estimated several billion cubic meters reserves.
The original settlement of the area consisted of Gétules (Berber from the south). The arrival of the Arabs in 653 (Gregorian calendar) caused the Islamization of the local community then composed in its majority of Berber tribes belonging to Maghraoui group (branch tératiennes). The spatial unit of Laghouat (in urban areas) is likely realized under the rule of El Hadj Aissa Marabout late 1725 Laghouat, around which revolved many Ksours, was a walled town before the French colonialism. Under the command of Colonel Marey Monge, the French colonial troops invaded the region in 1852, Rock carvings and mounds attest homes of prehistoric life that had spread to almost all of the Wilaya. However the date was founded the city of Laghouat is still unclear. We only know that it was an extreme point of the old and the Gaetulia Maghraoua, Berber tribe, fleeing tyranny and abuse, found refuge.
In the fifth century AH (eleventh century), portions of the tribe of Banu Hilal finally took up residence there and kept the name of Laghouat (plural Ghaout). Some important dates in the history of Laghouat:
     1368: Sultan Abu Hammou, the Zianides dynasty, driven by the Sultan of Fez Marinids, rallied his supporters in Laghouat before-slip and in Mzab.
     1698: The marabout SidiHadj Aissa (died 1737), patron of the city, settled in Laghouat.
     1708: The Sultan of Morocco Moulay Abdelmalek, set up camp in the west of the "rebel city" and he laid a tribute all the time she refused to pay.
     1727: Laghouat passed into the hands of the Ottomans. 1741: The Bey of Titteri, head of an imposing army besieged the city. Defeated, he took the road to Medea.
     1785: The Bey of Oran on the order of the Dey of Algiers, led a punitive expedition against Laghouat who still refused to pay the annual tax of 700 reals.
     1786: New attempt made, once again, by the Bey of Oran. He decided to cut first, but without success, the Ksar Ain Madhi fortified by the marabout Sidi Ahmed Tijani. The siege lasted two months.
     1787: The successor to the Bey of Oran tried in turn to take the Ksar Ain Madhi. He was not more fortunate than his predecessor. In retaliation, he completely destroyed the Ksar Tadjmout (founded in 1666 by the Ouled Youssef).
     1974: After the administrative division of the same year, Laghouat reinstates its status as capital of wilaya.


Climate
Semi-continental characterized by heat in summer and cold in winter with a strong loss of ice during the months of December and Gianfa.o Rainfall snow in some areas amounting to height above sea level of 800 meters, in the Atlas Mountains, which run through the desert state in the form of mountains and mountains Amour boys mainly Nile.
     Water Resources:
Rainfall in this region on an irregular basis, amounting Central (180 mm) annually with the occurrence of severe drought in some years.
Depends on the state of its drinking water Pkhl primarily on groundwater available in abundance in the region, especially with the presence of the largest dam in Africa Jovi Tajmot area near the state capital, which is a colonial legacy



 

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