Also called the "City of the Jujube trees"
Annaba
"la coquette"
"Alias Bone, alias Hippone"
4th city of Algeria, located in edge of sea at the East of the country
Also called the "City of the Jujube trees"
Population : 555.485 inhabitants
Communes and
cities close to Annaba :
Zaffrania, Cite Auzas, Cite Chancel,
Faubourg Sainte-Anne, Saint-Cloud, Beauséjour, Menadia , Joannonville,
Plaisance, Ramasses, Beni Mafer, Hippone, Sidi ben Othmane, Sainte-Croix de
l'Edough, Seraidi
Annaba has the reputation
to be an accessible, open and tolerant city.
Annaba - or Hippone, Bouna and Bône - knew the presence of Numides and the occupation
of Phéniciens, Carthaginois, the Romans (Augustin saint was the bishop from
395 to 430), of the Vandals, Fatimides, Zirides, of Hamadites, to which testify
some vestiges after a fashion preserved.
The ancient city, founded by Phenicians on Bejjina, a navigable river in the past.
With the
Saint-Augustin basilica, the forum and the museum Romans.
The Arab city founded by Sanhadjas in XIème century and whose heart is the place of Weapons, behind the place of the Revolution. But also the French city, with the Bertagna place whose alleys were the favorite walk of the European families, saturdays - there were the alley of the young people, that of the least young and, finally, that of the old men.
Annaba, it's not only the course of the Revolution or the Cornice. It is the place of Weapons, the "Laurier rose", "lusine à gaz", Sidi Salem, Bou Hamra (popular districts of the city)
As of fallen the night, families unpacks their picnic and dines on the range, in a slackened environment. The in love ones in search with a discrete corner are given rather go to Ras El Hamra (Cap de Garde), the point of the Cornice.
Hippone, was a large pole
of exchanges between two banks of the Mediterranean, it knew one of the most
famous figures of the time Romaine, " Saint Augustin ", Hippone then acquired
the religious notoriety of Christendom and becomes the center of emanation of
the theological thought Augustinienne.
After the Vandals, Hippone, knew the Byzantine invasion which gained a victory
over the Vandals and drove out them. Then they were the Arabs. Hippone is Islamized;
and will be named Bouna or Madinat Seybouse.
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