Thénia


Thénia, sometimes written as Thenia, with around 40,000 inhabitants, is the chief town in the daïra of the same name, in the wilaya of Boumerdès, in northern Algeria. Historically, the name is a contraction of "Theniet Beni Aicha" , the Arabic translation of the Kabyle Berber toponym Tizi n At Ɛica. The steep-sided pass, which is only about wide at its narrowest point, is sometimes taken to mark the transition between Mitidja and Grande Kabylie.

Villages

The villages of the commune of Thénia are:

Geography

Thénia is located on the main road from Algiers to Constantine, about east of Algiers, about inland from the coast, at an altitude of. Between the town and the coast, the scrub-covered Djebel bou Arous rises to a height of around and then falls more gently to the coast. South and east is the valley of the Isser River, whose sides rise to around and are deeply incised by streams. In many places the slopes are covered with vineyards and olive-groves.
Thénia is on the double-track portion of the Algiers-Skikda railway line and is the end of electric commuter rail service from Algiers station.

Zawiya

During the French occupation, the town was renamed Ménerville, after Charles-Louis Pinson de Ménerville, the first president of the court of appeals in Algiers. It resumed the name of Thénia a few years after independence in 1962.
In 1944, the town had 2,656 inhabitants, of whom the majority, 1,929, were European pieds noirs while the commune or district had 12,755, of whom 2,640 were pieds noirs.
Thénia was very near to the offshore epicenter of the 21 May 2003 Boumerdès earthquake, the strongest earthquake to hit Algeria since 1980.
At least four people were killed and around 20 injured by a car bomb outside a police station in the town on 29 January 2008.

French conquest

The town of Thénia contains dozens of roads in its urban network:

  • Rivers

This commune is crossed by several rivers:
This commune has one dam:
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Notable people