Azeffoun is a town and commune

Communes of Algeria

This is a list of all communes in the North African country of Algeria. Currently, there are 1,541 communes in the country. The population data is from June 25, 1998.-See also:* List of cities in Algeria* List of postal codes of Algerian cities...

 in Tizi Ouzou Province

Tizi Ouzou Province

Tizi Ouzou is a province in Algeria, named after its capital.-Administrative divisions:The province is divided into 21 districts , which are further divided into 67 communes or municipalities.-Districts:# Aïn El Hammam...

 in northern Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

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, located 64 km north-east of Tizi Ouzou.

Location

The area of ​​the municipality of Azeffoun is 126.66 km2 and a population of 16,096 inhabitants (census of 1998) and 17 435 inhabitants in 2008.

Azeffoun is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea

Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...

 on the north, the town of Aït Chafâa

Aït Chafâa

Aït Chafâa is a town and commune in Tizi Ouzou Province in northern Algeria....

  on the east, and the common Akerrou

Akerrou

Akerrou is a town and commune in Tizi Ouzou Province in northern Algeria....

, Aghrib

Aghrib

Aghribs is a town and commune in Tizi Ouzou Province in northern Algeria....

  in the south and Iflissen

Iflissen

Iflissen is a town and commune in Tizi Ouzou Province in northern Algeria.-References:...

 in the west. The town is located 64 km north-east of Tizi Ouzou, and 83 km western of Bejaia

Béjaïa

Béjaïa, Vgaiet or Bejaya is a Mediterranean port city on the Gulf of Béjaïa in Algeria; it is the capital of Béjaïa Province, Kabylia. Under French rule, it was formerly known under various European names, such as Budschaja in German, Bugia in Italian, and Bougie...

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Villages of the commune of Azeffoun

• Iagachene
• Tiouidiouine
• At Rhuna (Ait Rhouna)
• Cheurfa
• At Lḥusin (Ait Lhocine)
• Iḥanucen (Ihanouchene)
• Tazaɣart (Tazaghart)
• Amriɣ (Amrigh)
• At Sidi Yeḥya (Ait Sidi Yahia)
• Naith ou Aissa (Ait Sidi Aissa)
• Mlaṭa Iɛeggacen (M'latta Iagachene)
• Mlaṭa (Mlatta cité)
• Isumaten (Issoumatene)
• Zituna (Zitouna)
• Tiza
• Lxibya (El Khibia)
• At Yillul (Ait Illoul)
• KHANIS
• Tala Ḥadid
• Iɛbac (Iabache)
• Tagemunt n Yeɛbac (Taguemount Iâvache)
• Ɛcuba (Achouba)
• At Warẓiq (Ait Ouarzik)
• At Wandlus (Ait Ouandelous)
• Tifrest
• At Naɛim (Ait Naiem)
• Ijanaten (Idjanaten)
• Qirya (Kiria)
• Azeffun
• Bezerqa (Bezerka)
• Iḥemziwen (Ihamziouene)
• Iberhuten (Iberhoutene)
• Imuluden (Imouloudene)
• Tagemunt n Wedrar (Taguemount Boudrar)
• Lqelɛa (El Kelâa)
• Tidmimin
• Ɣerru (Gherrou)
• Iɣil Leɣzel (Ighil Leghzel)
• Taẓebbujt n Tiza (Tazebojt n Tiza)
• Imidiqsen (Imidiksen)
• Laɛzib Saḥel (Lazib Sahel)
• Agni n Riḥan (Agouni n Rihane)
• Taɛinṣert (Taincert)
• Tifezwin (Tifezouine)
• Timluka (Timlouka)
• Aɣulid (Aghoulid)
• Sidi Qurci (Sidi Korchi)
• Cote Bitar
• Ait chaffa
• Tafraout
• Ighil Mehni
• Jemha

History

In Roman

Ancient Rome

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 times it was called Ruzasus and was a very strategic military base because of its location, bordered to the north by the Mediterranean Sea, in the south by mountains rising to 500 m

Built by the French settlers to the last third of the nineteenth century, the colonial city, called Port Gueydon overlooks the sea from a hill which descends from Mount Tamgout perpendicular. It derives its name from Admiral Gueydon.

The fishing port is the first infrastructure to see the day According the first settlers. The the common of Port-mixed Gueydon was among the largest in the Kabylie

Kabylie

Kabylie or Kabylia , is a region in the north of Algeria.It is part of the Tell Atlas and is located at the edge of the Mediterranean Sea. Kabylia covers several provinces of Algeria: the whole of Tizi Ouzou and Bejaia , most of Bouira and parts of the wilayas of Bordj Bou Arreridj, Jijel,...

 time of the French administration. Dozens of villages occupied its geographical area bounded on the southeast by Ighil Tafraout Jehma and Zekri and south-west by the villages and Abizar Timizart

Timizart

Timizart is a town and commune in Tizi Ouzou Province in northern Algeria.-References:...

 N'sidi Mansour. It is the interface between the two Kabylies

personalities linked to the common

• Hadj Mohamed El-Anka
• Hadj M'Rizek
• Boudjemaâ El Ankis
• Mohamed Iguerbouchène
• M'hamed Issiakhem
• Abderrahmane Aziz
• Bachir Hadj Ali
• Mohamed Fellag
  Fellag
  Mohamed Saïd Fellag is an Algerian comedian, writer and humorist. He did his primary studies in Azeffoun and his secondary studies in Ali Mellah secondary school in Draa el Mizan...
  
  
• Ahcéne Lalmas
• Mohamed Hilmi
• Said Hilmi
• Hnifa Boualem Chaker
• Abdelkader Chercham
• Abderrahmane Lounés
• Rouiched
• El Hadj-Said Oulmaghechthoum
• Tahar Djaout
  Tahar Djaout
  Tahar Djaout was an Algerian journalist, poet, and fiction writer. He was assassinated by the Armed Islamic Group because of his support of secularism and opposition to what he considered fanaticism. He was attacked on May 26, 1993, as he was leaving his home in Bainem, Algeria. He died on June 2,...