Aïn Taya is a suburb of Algiers

Algiers

' is the capital and largest city of Algeria. According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban agglomeration was 2,135,630. In 2009, the population was about 3,500,000...

, 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...

. It is located in the administrative constituency of Dar El Beïda

Dar El Beïda District

Dar El Beïda is a district in Algiers Province, Algeria. It was named after its capital, Dar El Beïda.-Municipalities:The district is further divided into 7 municipalities, which is the highest number in the province:*Dar El Beïda*Bab Ezzouar...

 in the Governorate of Greater Algiers. Its postal code is 16030 and its municipal code is 1638. Prior to its being part of the Governorate of Greater Algiers, it was part of Boumerdès Province

Boumerdès Province

Boumerdès is a province of northern Algeria, between Algiers and Tizi-Ouzou, with its capital at the coastal city of Boumerdès just east of Algiers.-Administrative divisions:...

 with postal code 35310. Its current president of the People's Municipal Assembly

People's Municipal Assembly

The People's Municipal Assembly , is the political body governing the municipalities of Algeria. It is composed of an assembly elected on universal suffrage for five years. This assembly further elects a president, the president of the People's Municipal Assembly, which is the Algerian equivalent...

(mayor

Mayor

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) is Mr. Abdelaziz Rih (2002–2007). Aïn Taya has a budget

Budget

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 of 46 million DZD.

Demographics

It has a population of 29,515 inhabitants as of the 1998 census (3,707 inh./km²). A 2002 estimate puts the population at 80,169. An important part of the population is of Kabyle

Kabyle people

The Kabyle people are the largest homogeneous Algerian ethno-cultural and linguistical community and the largest nation in North Africa to be considered exclusively Berber. Their traditional homeland is Kabylie in the north of Algeria, one hundred miles east of Algiers...

 origin. Historical populations include:

• 78 families (1847)
• 1,666, of which 549 are French
  French people
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   (1870)
• 5,674, of which 3,500 muslim
  Islam
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  s, and 2,174 non-Muslim (?)
• 6,100 (1954)
• 13,700 (1987 census)

Geography

The area of the municipality is 955 hectare

Hectare

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s, or 9,5 km2 (about 3.76 sq mi) of which 60% are used for agriculture

Agriculture

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. It also has a 8 km (almost 5 mi) of coastline located a few kilometers east of the easternmost point of the gulf

Bay

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 of Algiers, on the Mediterranean Sea

Mediterranean Sea

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.

Former mayors

This is a list of Aïn Taya's mayors during French colonian times

French Algeria

French Algeria lasted from 1830 to 1962, under a variety of governmental systems. From 1848 until independence, the whole Mediterranean region of Algeria was administered as an integral part of France, much like Corsica and Réunion are to this day. The vast arid interior of Algeria, like the rest...

, all of them being male:

• Joseph Guyot 1870-1878
• Jean Dabadie 1879-1884
• Casimir Fabre 1884-1891
• Paul Oudaille 1891-1895
• Désiré Dulin 1896-1898
• Joseph Chabert 1898-1904
• Paul Fabre 1904-1910
• Charles Pellegrin 1910-1919
• Michel Sinters 1920-1935
• Auguste Allier 1935-1945
• Emile Bertoni 1945-1948
• Hector Buchardt 1948-1949
• ? Gadrel 1949-1962