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  Adventures of Algeria: Bejaia
Bejaia is one of Algeria's most beautiful cities, situated between the sea, a cape and a mountain.
There aren't many sights around Bejaia, only some mosques and remnants from periods when military defence of the city was totally necessary.
The beach of Bejaia could have made this place into one of the foremost pearls of the whole Mediterranean basin, but it is so polluted that nobody need to warn you from jumping into it.
lexicorient.com /algeria/bejaia.htm   (187 words)

  
  AllRefer.com - BejaIa, Algeria (Algerian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
147,076), N Algeria, a port on the Gulf of BejaIa (an arm of the Mediterranean Sea).
The northern terminus of the Hassi Messaoud oil pipeline from the Sahara, BejaIa is the principal oil port of the W Mediterranean.
Until it was captured by the French in 1833, BejaIa was a stronghold of the Barbary pirates (see Barbary States).
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bejaia.html   (265 words)

  
 Bejaia, Algeria
It is situated at the Mediterranean Sea, by the river of Wadi Soummam, on the foot of Mount Gouraya.
At the beginning of the 20th century the port and the whole harbour were modernized and 46 years after that an oil pipeline turned Bejaia into one of the main Algerian ports and the most important port for oil transportation.
Bejaia is located far from other Algerian cities, but fortunately it has a good rail connections.
www.odyssei.com /destinations/9734.html   (457 words)

  
  MuslimHeritage.com - Topics
Bejaia is a city on the eastern Algerian coast, built in an amphitheatre around a bay, sheltered from the sea elements.
Bejaia symbolises something extraordinary, that is the marriage between business and science, and it came via the Italian city of Pisa, one of the major trading powers of the Middle Ages, and soon the birth place of modern Western mathematics.
The prosperity of Bejaia went on under the Almohads, who also prevented the city form falling under Norman hands, the Normans who then had taken much of Tunisia, and were extending their realm, threatening the suppression of Islam in the whole of North Africa.
www.muslimheritage.com /topics/default.cfm?articleID=441   (3262 words)

  
 AlgĂ©rie - Photos de la ville de Bejaia
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www.algerie-monde.com /photos-algerie/photos-de-la-ville-bejaia-algerie.html   (88 words)

  
 Girl Solo in Arabia: Bejaia
En route to the coastal city of Bejaia we made a deviation to visit the village of Ait-Yenni which is known for its silver jewelry worked either with coral, which came from al-Kala near the Tunisian border, or enameled blue, green and yellow.
Known as Vaga by the Phoenicians and Saldae by the Romans, Bejaia was under Hafsid control from Tunis when Ibn B arrived.
Like Algiers, Bejaia is ringed by hills, and at the northern end of town lies Cap Carbon which offers fabulous views over the Mediterranean and a delightful sheltered cove watched over by a lighthouse.
girlsoloinarabia.typepad.com /girl_solo_in_arabia/bejaia/index.html   (608 words)

  
 Bejaia city - Algeria - Sara Travels
Bejaia was the capital of Hammadites which was to give up their mountain capital LKalaâ N Blessed-Hammad to be installed on these shores open on the world.
The destruction of the identity of the town of Bejaia started since 16th century with the Spanish invasion.
The candle was born in Bougie: Candle, the francized shape of Arabic Bejaia, car his name of that of a Berber tribe which occupied, a time, the Saldae antique.
www.saravoyages.net /saratravels/bejaia.html   (628 words)

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