Sidi Ali Bounab

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Sidi Ali Bounab is a mountain in Algeria, about 800 m in height, shared between the wilayas of Tizi Ouzou and Boumerdes. It overlooks the plain of Tadmaït. Its forests are composed mainly of cork oak.[1]

During the French conquest of Algeria the area saw intense combat, including the Battle of Tadmaït.

In 1949 it was the scene of a "punitive expedition" by French gendarmes against the villages of the mountain.[2]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Hamid Belkaid, 2016. spatiale et environnementale du risque d’incendie de forêt en Algérie : Cas de la Kabylie maritime. PhD thesis, University of Nice, p. 72.
  2. ^ Ouarda Tengour, 2015, L’affaire Sidi Ali Bounab ou les avatars de Mohamed Cherchar - Septembre 1949, in Colonisations et répressions, ed. Chantal Chanson-Jabeur