Blida
"The city of the Roses"
Population : 787.000 inhabitants
Communes
or villages close of Blida
Oulad Soltane, Bou Arfa, Hamlili, Montpensier, Les Orangeries, Sidi Kebir,
Joinville, Dalmatie , Tafra'out, Oulad Yaich, Bel Kreit, Cherifia, Guerrouaou,
Douar Tazardjount, Chrea , Birtouta , Oued Sidi Slimane, Beni Abdi , Khraicia,
Ouled Belhadj, Baba Hassen, Douera, Les Quatre Chemins, Ouled Chebel, Hadj Ya'koub,
Baba Ali, Shaoula, Rahmenia, Tixeraine, Bellevue, Maison Blanche, Boufarik
The
others "Blida" in the world
Celebrates town of Boufarik: (April - May): Celebrates Orange
It is called " the city of the Roses ", located in green Mitidja, it embaume of all the rose trees which flower in the city.
Formerly, in Spring were organized, by the Town hall of Blida, battles of flowers, and the most beautiful bouquet then was rewarded.
But it is also the area of Oranges, located at the heart of Mitidja, the orange trees smell good in all the area!
THE ROMAN
TIME:
Like we did not find Roman ruins in the surroundings, we sayss that the Romans
never occupied Blida. The discovery of some remains during the drilling of a
well in Montponsier (Benboulaid) proves the opposite to us.
About year
925 of Hégire (1519), a pious man, came to fix himself at the confluence of
the "oued Taberkachent and "Châabet ar-Rommân" (Ravine
of the grenades), river called " Sidi-El-Kébir " today. The hermitage of
Sidi Ahmed El-Kebir, soon surrounded by Zaouia, is not long in becoming a place
of pelerinage attended by many believing attracted by the lesson of the saint
and the fame of its virtues.
Towards 1533, the
Pasha Kheir-Eddine made pass to Algeria driven out thousands of Maures of Spain
(become Christian after capitulation of Grenade). Taken compassion for these
immigrants, Sid Ahmed El-Kebir installed one of these groups on right bank of
Châabet ar-Rommân. To put these exiled at the shelter of the ill treatments,
Sid Ahmed El-Kebir could interest in their fate the Pasha Kheir Eddine, which
granted its protection to them and made build with their intention a Mosque
at the edge of the Place of November 1 (ex-Clémenceau), a bath (which always
exists in the quarties of El djoun) and a communal oven. These establishments
became the core of a " small city ", that, towards 1535, Sid Ahmed El Kebir
named it " EL BOULAÏDA ".
Sid Ahmed
El Kebir after to have discovered and have diverted beautiful water of the mountain
of the Atlas, has, with the assistance of Maures Andalous, introduced into the
area the technique of the irrigation, the arboricole culture and the embroidery
of leather (disappeared nowadays).
Sid Ahmed El Kebir
died towards 1540 at the 70 years age approximately and is buried in his Zaouia.
THE CONQUEST
OTTOMAN:
Prosperity came with
the Ottomane conquest and the city became a kind of place of rest and predilection
of the lords nouveau riches and sovereigns Turkish of Algiers, who liked to
come to rest and rest themselves, and it was also the time of a certain expansion
of closed houses and Turs palate in Sidi Yaacoub. Time passed peacefully until
Mars 1825, Blida was shaken by an earthquake of great intensity which transformed
the city into ruins and made a great number of victims.
Those which
survived rebuilt the city on a new site. mourut vers 1540 à l'âge de 70 ans
environ et se trouve enterré dans sa Zaouia.
It was a maze small lanes narrow and sinuous, the acces at the city was done
starting from the six existing gates :
FRENCH OCCUPATION:
The French Army penetrated for the first time in the city in 1830, under the
amazed glance of the population of Blida. Two camps were create in 1838 to supervise
the city and its surroundings, the camp superior and the camp inferior. These
two camps became since, the suburbs of Joinville (Zabana) and Montponsier (Ben
Boulaid).
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