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Encyclopedia Britannica



ALGERIA

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 903 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AJA-ALL
ALGERIA .)
Mostaganem
  occupies the site of a Roman town. The ancient harbour was destroyed by
earthquake
  in the reign of the emperor Gallien. The present port is entirely artificial. The existing town appears to date from the time of the Almoravides, who built the citadel, now turned into a prison. It passed into the possession of the rulers of Tlemcen and was captured by Arouj
Barbarossa
  in 1516, and became
part
  of his brother Khair-ed-Din's kingdom. In the 16th century the town enjoyed a period of
great
  commercial prosperity, and its
population
  rose to 40,000. The re-awakening of the town
dates
  from the French occupation in 1833. Pop. (1906) of the town, 19,528, of the commune 22,011, of the arrondissement, comprising 27 communes, 332,684.
In the vicinity of-
Mostaganem
  are the Dahra mountains, honey-combed with caves. In 1845, in one of these caves, a French force, commanded by Colonel Pelissier, afterwards
commander
 -in-
chief
  of the French army in the Crimea, destroyed over 800 Arabsmen, women and childrenby suffocation, by filling the mouths of the cave with faggots and then setting them on fire.


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