Azeffoun

Azeffoun
Commune and town
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Azeffoun
Coordinates:
Country	Algeria
Province	Tizi Ouzou Province
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)

Azeffoun is a town and commune in Tizi Ouzou Province in northern Algeria, located 64 kilometres (40 mi) north-east of Tizi Ouzou.

Geography

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 on the north, the town of Aït Chafâa on the east, and the common Akerrou, Aghrib in the south and Iflissen in the west. The town is located 64 km north-east of Tizi Ouzou, and 83 km western of Bejaia.

Villages in the commune of Azeffoun

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History

In Roman times the town was called Ruzasus or Rusadus and was a strategic military base because of its location, bordered on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, on the south by mountains rising to 500 metres.

The town's bishopric, no longer a residential see, is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.

The colonial city, called Port Gueydon in honour of Admiral Gueydon, wasbuilt by French settlers to the last third of the 19th century, It overlooks the sea from a hill that descends steeply from Mount Tamgout.

The fishing port is the first infrastructure to see the day according to the first settlers. The common of Port-mixed Gueydon was among the largest in the Kabylie 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 N'sidi Mansour. It is the interface between the two Kabylies.

Personalities linked to the commune

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