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Topic: Annaba (province)


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  Annaba
It is the capital of Annaba province with 620,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate) and an area of 1,439 km².
Annaba has a diverse economy, and is the main port for mineral exports in Algeria, including iron, steel, and zinc.
Annaba was a centre of early Christianity, with the Council of Hippo, established in 393 CE.
lexicorient.com /e.o/annaba.htm   (261 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: Annaba Province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ain Defla is a province (wilaya) in northern Algeria.
Ain Temouchent is a province in northwestern Algeria.
Annaba (ِ Arabic عنّابة, formerly Bône) is a city in the north-eastern corner of Algeria near the river Wadi Seybouse and the Tunisian border.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Annaba-Province   (670 words)

  
 Annaba - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Annaba, formerly Bône, city, northeastern Algeria, capital of Annaba Province, a seaport on the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Seybouse...
AnnabaArabic عنّابة, formerly Bône) is a city in the north-eastern corner of Algeria near the river Wadi Seybouse and the Tunisian border.
Very much like Algiers, Annaba is a refuge for those with a need for European atmosphere during...
ca.encarta.msn.com /Annaba.html   (113 words)

  
 Annaba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
AnnabaArabic عنّابة, formerly Bône) is a city in the north-eastern corner of Algeria near the river Wadi Seybouse and the Tunisian border.
Annaba has provided evidence of remarkable workmanship in tool-making as early as 30,000 BC.
Annaba, which was called Hippo Regius during Roman times, was probably established by the Phoenicians in the 12th century BC.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Annaba   (288 words)

  
 Annaba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Annaba plant consists of two sulfuric acid units with a combined capacity of 495,000 t/y, one 165,000 t/y phosphoric...
Annaba is a small province in the north-eastern corner of Algeria.
As of 2004 its population is estimated to be 608,700.
hallencyclopedia.com /Annaba   (346 words)

  
 Annaba (province) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Annaba (Arabic: ولاية عنابة) is a small province in the north-eastern corner of Algeria.
As of 2004 its population is estimated to be 3,608,700.
The city of Annaba is located in this province.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Annaba_Province   (85 words)

  
 Toronto Catalog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Annaba, which was called Hippo Regius during Roman times, was probably established by the Phoenicians in the 12th century BC.
One famous pied-noir from Bône was Alphonse Juin, a Marshal of France and a former NATO Central Europe Commander.
There is a railway network connecting Annaba to Oran via Constantine and Algiers.
www.torontopost.biz /Info/?Annaba   (437 words)

  
 Annaba, Algeria, Pictures
Annaba, formerly Bône, city, northeastern Algeria, capital of Annaba Province, a seaport on the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Seybouse River.
Annaba is the principal harbor of eastern Algeria and is a chief exporter of minerals on the Mediterranean.
Annaba was captured by the Allies during World War II and used by them as an army base.
www.greatestcities.com /Africa/Algeria/Annaba_formerly_Bone_city.html   (245 words)

  
 Histoire de la ville de Annaba (Ex bône) en Algérie
Annaba est une ville côtière de l'Est d'Algérie, 3ème ville principale après la capitale Alger, et Oran.
La fonction de point d'échanges commerciaux, notamment avec l'étranger, fait de Annaba et sa région une des assiettes de l'établissement de concessions commerciales européennes, prémices de la colonisation.
C'est en avril 1832 que Annaba est définitivement investie et prise par l'armée d'invasion coloniale.
www.el-annabi.com /annaba/histoire.htm   (693 words)

  
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Apart from the unpleasant sight of polluted waters in the Algiers Bay and El Harrach River near Algiers, there is serious risk of polluting the groundwater aquifer along the coast, a source of potable water for the large coastal urban communities.
They are the cities of Annaba, Ain Temouchent, Bejaia, Jijel, Mascara, Oran, Relizane, Sidi Bel Abes, Setif, and Tlemcen with a total population of 2.0 million.
In - 30 - Annaba, apart from the first three domestic categories up to 330 M3 per year, consumers in the other categories and industries are charged tariffs close to the marginal cost.
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 Africa (province) - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
Africa was a province of the Roman Empire.
The Roman administrative province is shown, although in Carthagian times the province was larger.
Most of the province fell into Roman hands at the end of the Second Punic War, with the entire province conquered in the Third Punic War.
www.indopedia.org /Africa_(province).html   (240 words)

  
 Diocese of Iba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The administration of the Faith in the province changed hands when the territory was transferred to the care of the Columban Fathers in 1951.
The diocese of Iba comprises the civil jurisdiction of the province of Zambales.
The province is composed of 13 municipalities and (1) city, with Iba as the provincial Capital.
www.paulgozon.8k.com /diocese.htm   (855 words)

  
 Lighthouses of Algeria
Annaba, known as Bône in colonial days, is the principal seaport of northeastern Algeria.
This is the landfall light for Annaba, located atop a very prominent headland; a panoramic view shows the hill in the distance.
Active; focal plane 128 m (420 ft); white or red light, depending on direction, occulting once every 4 s.
www.unc.edu /~rowlett/lighthouse/dza.htm   (3378 words)

  
 Annaba
City in Algeria with about 500,000 inhabitants (2003 estimate), located in the north-eastern corner of the country, on the Mediterranean Sea, and near the river Wadi Seybouse.
Annaba has very good connections with other urban centres of Algeria by rail or road.
Annaba has a large number of monuments from different epochs, most of them being Christian, Muslim and Roman structures.
i-cias.com /e.o/annaba.htm   (272 words)

  
 Algeria Provinces
I adjusted the 1998 populations of four provinces by one or two each, bringing the total closer to the reported figure.
1848-12-09: By French presidential decree, the civil territory in each province was elevated to a department of the same name, with a status nominally equal to the departments of European France.
The new provinces were predominantly formed by taking the old departments as they were, or by splitting them into two provinces.
www.statoids.com /udz.html   (1526 words)

  
 Constantine
City in eastern Algeria with 530,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate), on a plateau cut by a deep ravine, at an elevation of 640 metres above sea level.
It is the capital of Constantine province with 910,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate) and an area of 2,187 km².
Annaba lies 150 km northeast, and Algiers 430 km west.
i-cias.com /e.o/constant.htm   (288 words)

  
 Université Badji Mokhtar - Annaba - Review and Web Ranking
> Africa > Algeria > Université Badji Mokhtar - Annaba
Please visit the Université Badji Mokhtar - Annaba's website to make sure that the information provided are still up-to-date.
List of other accredited Universities and Colleges in Algeria reviewed and ranked by web popularity
www.4icu.org /reviews/12.htm   (114 words)

  
 Augustine's Life
Augustine was born in the town of Tagaste in the Roman Province of Numidia in North Africa in the year 354.
These coastal regions were a fertile land, producing great crops of grain and vegetables in the river valleys and huge forests or olive trees on the hillsides and arid high plains.
It was about 15 miles from Madaura (the present M'Daourouch, Algeria) where he went to "prep" school and about 150 miles from Carthage on the coast of present day Tunisia, where he was to go for higher education and where he was to spend the early years of his teaching career.
www41.homepage.villanova.edu /donald.burt/augustine.htm   (4795 words)

  
 Oran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Oran (population 700,000) is a city in northwest Algeria, situated on the Mediterranean Sea coast.
Oran is the capital of a province (wilaya) of the same name.
Oran was founded in the 10th century by Moorish Andalusian traders, but was captured by the Spanish under Cardinal Cisneros in 1509.
www.usedaudiparts.com /search.php?title=Oran   (261 words)

  
 :::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄:::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Tensions between Algeria and Morocco, as well as issues relating to the Algerian Civil War, have put great obstacles in the way of tightening the Maghreb Arab Union, nominally established in 1989 but with little practical weight, with its coastal neighbors.
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In philosophy and the humanities, Malek Bennabi and Frantz Fanon are noted for their thoughts on decolonization, while Augustine of Hippo was born in Annaba, and Ibn Khaldun, though born in Tunis, wrote the Muqaddima while staying in Algeria.
www.mauspfeil.net /Algeria.html   (2539 words)

  
 Augustine in Algeria
Africa began at Carthage for the Romans and extended east and west along the coast for hundreds of miles.
Africa Proconsularis was the name of the province Carthage ruled, and it included Augustine's Hippo 200 miles to the west.
One French language newspaper whose report I read in Annaba said that the point of the conference, in the president's eyes, was to prove that it is possible to be Algerian without being Muslim, but rejoined that it was at least as important to show that you can be Muslim without being Taliban.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /jod/algeria/algeriatrip.html   (890 words)

  
 Wadi Seybouse --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Originally settled as pre-Roman Calama, it became a proconsular province and the bishopric of St. Possidius, biographer and student of St. Augustine.
It passed to the Romans as Hippo Regius, was the residence of the Numidian kings, and achieved...
Its three main regions are Cyrenaica (also called the Eastern provinces) on its eastern Mediterranean coast, Tripolitania (the Western provinces) on its western coast, and Fezzan (the Southern provinces), a series of oases in the southwestern desert.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9067003?&query=wadi   (705 words)

  
 Annaba - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
ALGERIA - Annaba and Tebessa Plants: profiles of the main plants run by ENIP and Sonatrach.
Prophylaxis of bovine brucellosis in the breeding units of the socialist sector of Wilaya de Annaba, 1976-1982: Control plant, results and recommendations...
Mediterranean Sea, Algeria, approaches to Annaba Harbor (SuDoc D 5.356:52202/995)
www.unipedia.info /Annaba.html   (333 words)

  
 CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Administrative divisions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
20 provinces (khaitt, singular and plural) and 4 municipalities (krong, singular and plural)
23 provinces (sheng, singular and plural), 5 autonomous regions (zizhiqu, singular and plural), and 4 municipalities (shi, singular and plural)
2 provinces (viloyatho, singular - viloyat) and 1 autonomous province* (viloyati mukhtor); Viloyati Mukhtori Kuhistoni Badakhshon* [Gorno-Badakhshan] (Khorugh), Viloyati Khatlon (Qurghonteppa), Viloyati Sughd (Khujand)
www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/fields/2051.html   (5916 words)

  
 C. Suetonius Tranquillus
Caius Suetonius Tranquillus was born in the province of Africa, in Hippo Regius, near modern 'Annaba in northeast Algeria.
Every Latin letter written by the emperor Hadrian in the first five years of his reign (117-122) must have passed through the hands of Suetonius, who was probably also a member of the consilium principis, the emperor's board of advisers.
Suetonius must have accompanied the emperor on his first tour through the provinces: along the Rhine to Germania Inferior, and across the North Sea to Britain, where Suetonius must have witnessed the laying of the foundation stone of Hadrian's wall.
www.livius.org /su-sz/suetonius/suetonius.html   (2249 words)

  
 Constantine, Algeria, Pictures
Constantine, city, northeastern Algeria, capital of Constantine Province.
It is a center for the manufacture of leather and leather goods and woolen and linen goods.
It has considerable trade in these products and in cereal grains with Algiers, Tunis, Annaba, Biskra, and Skikda, the last-named serving as the port of Constantine.
www.greatestcities.com /Africa/Algeria/Constantine_city.html   (171 words)

  
 St. Augustine of Hippo - Augustinian Saints
A Bishop in Hippo (near modern-day Annaba, Algeria), Augustine was an influential leader in the African Church.
As Christians were growing in their knowledge of God and Christ, Augustine helped to shape Christian theological teachings, particularly those about the role of Divine Grace and the nature of the Holy Trinity.
Copyright © 1999-2006 Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel of the Augustinian Order.
www.midwestaugustinians.org /saints_augustine.html   (503 words)

  
 Edge: A MUTUAL JOINT-STOCK WORLD IN ALL MERIDIANS
Some of the refugees from the events of August 410 landed up in a grimy seaport city in Africa, then called Hippo Regius, today the city of Annaba in Algeria.
A backwater by any standards, it owed its standing to its harbor, through which the grain and olive supply of the province of Numidia - think of it as the Roman Nebraska - came down to the sea for shipment to the capital city.
It was a natural place for wealthy refugees to make landfall, and a fair number of them indeed owned the great Numidian estates in the breadbasket of empire.
www.edge.org /3rd_culture/odonnell/odonnell_p4.html   (543 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/List of FIPS region codes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
CG01: Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
CG02: Équateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
CG05: Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/List_of_FIPS_region_codes   (241 words)

  
 Some 70 persons detained in east Algeria
The Algerian security forces arrested 70 persons following the series of attacks against the citizens of Annaba province to the east of Algeria since the beginning of the current month of Ramadan.
Algerian security sources in Annaba province, 600 Kms to the east of Algiers said on Thursday that the security forces arrested 70 persons and brought 50 other suspects for investigation judge who ordered to imprison 35 of them under charges of attacks by " knives and of having drugs or/ and thefts.
The sources added that these aggressions and acts of rubbery which have become widely spread in Annaba since the beginning of Ramadan resulted in the death of a (21 year old man).
www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/011130/2001113011.html   (219 words)

  
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