Aïn Smara
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Ain Smara is a municipality in the west of Constantine
Constantine, Algeria
Constantine is the capital of Constantine Province in north-eastern Algeria. It was the capital of the same-named French département until 1962. Slightly inland, it is about 80 kilometres from the Mediterranean coast, on the banks of Rhumel river...

 city bordered on the east by Constantine municipality
Constantine, Algeria
Constantine is the capital of Constantine Province in north-eastern Algeria. It was the capital of the same-named French département until 1962. Slightly inland, it is about 80 kilometres from the Mediterranean coast, on the banks of Rhumel river...

 and Khroub
El Khroub
El Khroub is a town and commune in Constantine Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 89,919.-References:...

, on the west by Oued el ethmania (Mila), on the north by Ibn Ziad
Ibn Ziad
Ibn Ziad is a town and commune in Constantine Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 15,514.-References:...

 and on the south by Khroub
El Khroub
El Khroub is a town and commune in Constantine Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 89,919.-References:...

 and it is following the Khroub district
El Khroub
El Khroub is a town and commune in Constantine Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 89,919.-References:...

 but it can be a district from Constantine
Constantine, Algeria
Constantine is the capital of Constantine Province in north-eastern Algeria. It was the capital of the same-named French département until 1962. Slightly inland, it is about 80 kilometres from the Mediterranean coast, on the banks of Rhumel river...

 districts in the coming years, in Ain Smara we find Hricha Amar quarter which is one of the biggest Constantine'quarters and it can be a municipality in the coming years , the area of Ain Smara is 175 km² and its population is 37000 people

History

Ain Smara was founded in 1854 it was following to Oued el ethmania and it is popular by Chettaba mountains, in the Ottoman finding (1515-1830) it was following to Turc baylek for Constantine
Constantine, Algeria
Constantine is the capital of Constantine Province in north-eastern Algeria. It was the capital of the same-named French département until 1962. Slightly inland, it is about 80 kilometres from the Mediterranean coast, on the banks of Rhumel river...

 and in the French colonialism (1830–1962) it was following the Constantine
Constantine, Algeria
Constantine is the capital of Constantine Province in north-eastern Algeria. It was the capital of the same-named French département until 1962. Slightly inland, it is about 80 kilometres from the Mediterranean coast, on the banks of Rhumel river...

 department, after the independence it still as a quarter of Oued el ethmania until the administrative division of 1984 when Ain Smara became a new municipality.

Sport

There is no doubt that the football is the first sport anywhere in Algeria and so in Ain Smara and we find in Ain Smara two football clubs:
ittihad riyadi beladiat ain smara (irbas)
mouloudia beladiat ain smara (mbas)
and there are two sand stadiums.
In the other sports there are a sport room (Bachiri Mokhtar), it has judo, karate, handball and volleyball and its club has the name of sporting Ain Smara (sas) and it is from the first clubs in the individual and collective sport in Constantine especially handball and volleyball.

Education

There are more than 20 primary school in Constantine and 5 cem :
  • Ali Boukerzaza
  • Amar Bourgoud
  • Amar Belkerfa
  • Hricha Amar 1
  • Hricha Amar 2

and two lycées :
  • Mustafa Kateb technicom
  • new lycée Ain Smara

In addition to a new lycée which is probably will be opened in the 2010-2011 season in Hricha Amar quarter.

Mosques

There are 5 mosques in Ain Smara:
  • Okba Bin Nafaa - Amar Bin Yasser
  • Mussa Ibn Nussair - Essalam
  • El farouk

and others under construction, like:
  • Ennour : in Hricha Amar
  • Abd El Hamid Ibn Badis : in July 5 quarter
  • and an other in belkerfa quarter

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