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  Biskra Eden of Algerie - Biskra -
Biskra is the centre of the Zab group of oases located in the depression between the Aurès Massif and the Tell Atlas Mountains.
It is the capital of Biskra province with 650,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate) and an area of 20,986 km².
National tourism is also of importance to Biskra, due to its nice winter climate and sulphur springs "Hammam Salhine", which are used both for recreation and the treatment of rheumatism and skin diseases.
www.eden-algerie.com /index_english.htm   (572 words)

  
  BISKRA - LoveToKnow Article on BISKRA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The name Biskra applies to a union of five or six villages of the usual Saharan.
From November to April the climate of Biskra is delightful.
Biskra is the capital of the Ziban (plural of Zab), a race of, mixed Berber and Arab origin, whose villages extend from the southern slopes of the Aures to the Shat Melrir.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BI/BISKRA.htm   (529 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Biskra, Algeria (Algerian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
It is a commercial center for the nomads of the surrounding region.
Biskra was the Roman military base of Vescera; later it was an important Muslim town.
After 1844 it served as a French base for operations in S Algeria.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Biskra.html   (153 words)

  
 Biskra
Biskra is the centre of the Zab group of oases located in the depression between the Aurès Massif and the Tell Atlas Mountains.
It is the capital of Biskra province with 650,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate) and an area of 20,986 km².
National tourism is also of importance to Biskra, due to its nice winter climate and sulfur springs, which are used both for recreation and the treatment of rheumatism and skin diseases.
lexicorient.com /e.o/biskra.htm   (265 words)

  
 Le site de Djamila
To the 10°century it is conquered by Kalaa de Beni Hammad then by Arabic Hillaliens and by Almohades of the kingdom of Marrakech to the 12°century after J.C. In the 14°century, Biskra was going to depend sometimes on Hafssides of Tunisia, and Mirinides de Fes.
In 1849 Biskra is occupied by the duke of Aumale.
Biskra is the capital of the oases of Ziban.
users.antrasite.be /ppoisse/English/biskrabis.htm   (370 words)

  
 Recipe: Shakhshukha al-Bisakra (Algeria) Fiery Hot Lasagne in the Style of Biskra
Biskra sits on the northern edge of the great desert, but it is considered a southern town.
In Biskra, shakhshukha is the name of a very thin fresh lasagne preparation cooked in a kiskis (couscousière) with a blazing hot sauce of lamb brains, tomatoes, and spices.
This recipe is typical in oasis towns where they also make a family of lasagne preparations, sometimes using mutton or chicken or ultra-thin lasagne sheets in various shapes known as aftir wa'l-qisil (a kind of fatir made of young barley or wheat).
www.cliffordawright.com /recipes/shak_al_bis.html   (775 words)

  
 The loot of the cities, ch. 5: In the capital of the Sahara (1905) by Arnold Bennett
Biskra is an oasis in the desert, and the capital of the Algerian Sahara.
Nevertheless, though Biskra as much resembles Paris as it resembles the conventional idea of an oasis, it is genuine enough, and the limitless desert is, in fact, all around.
Biskra, therefore, is not officially aware of the presence of Mr.
gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca /gaslight/lootX5.htm   (4611 words)

  
 Biskra Info and Discussion Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This is the personal account by a radio operator of an experimental new ordnance that was tested in the Mediterranean Theater early in the war.
Biskra airfield had been used earlier by the Germans and by U.S. P-38s But now all that remained were a few old French twin engine bombers that had escaped from the German occupation of France.
I had kept a meager diary during the Biskra affair and soon after the war ended I started to put together some order of the events as they occurred using the diary and pictures that were taken at Biskra.
www.redtailcanyon.com /places/1986384.aspx   (2389 words)

  
 BBC - WW2 People's War - Exploring Algeria 1944: an Arabian Night in Biskra
An atmosphere of unreality began with clouds of locusts descending on the fields between Algiers and Constantine.
Biskra, that oasis of a million palm-trees, was explored with Said, a town-wise Arab employee of Cook's.
Biskra was a kind of halfway house between France and the real South.
www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/15/a3609515.shtml   (1136 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Music: Algeriaiwan Of Biskra [Compilation]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Biskra is a place of fellowship, a place where ritual can take place among community members.
It is important to note that the entire diwân de Biskra is not on this recording because the rest is inaudible: rituals of dance, theater, medicine, art, etc. On this awesome Ocora recording only the poetry and the music are preserved in the original languages, Arabic and Hjemi.
The ceremony is a lineage of poetry, passed from one generation to the next, and the entire lineage from ancient to the present is sung at the Biskra.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000003IFM   (519 words)

  
 Adventures of Algeria: Biskra
Coming from the north, Biskra will give you a feeling of what is waiting further south.
The city of Biskra is a charming place, though there is little architecture beyond modern buildings and wide roads.
The market of Biskra is worth the visit, also for buying your own bags of fresh fruit and vegetables.
lexicorient.com /algeria/biskra.htm   (123 words)

  
 Biskra, Algeria, Pictures
Fort Saint Germain, which was an important French military post during the French occupation of Algeria, is situated here.
The Arab conqueror of North Africa, Okba, was killed near the town; his tomb bears the oldest known Arabic inscription in North Africa.
In 1844, after centuries of Moorish rule, Biskra was seized by the French.
www.greatestcities.com /Africa/Algeria/Biskra_town.html   (154 words)

  
 Workman: Algerian Memories
Besides the oasis of Biskra, comparatively in the foreground, a number of others were visible, the dark colour of which, contrasting with the lighter hues of the plain, gave the leopard-skin appearance which has been mentioned in connection with this view.
The hotels of Biskra are neither very bad nor very good, but the days when the romantic German tourist sat alone in the Moorish dining-room of the Hotel de Sahara, served by silent-footed, sad-eyed Biskris in national costume, are unhappily at an end.
The houses of French Biskra, like those of other Ziban towns, are built of sun-dried bricks made from a sticky clay of this region mixed with chopped straw, are low, of at most two storeys, and generally placed over arcades.
erc.lib.umn.edu /dynaweb/travel/workalge/@Generic__BookTextView/2410   (2464 words)

  
 Biskra, Algeria, 1943
At the market in Biskra medicine men plied their ancient craft.
This particular individual was applying a mix of ostrich shell, salt and lizard oil to a little girl's eye, swollen from conjunctivitis.
Eye disease was endemic on the desert and cleanliness was an idea whose time had not come.
digitallibrary.smu.edu /cul/gir/ww2/mcsc/nafrica/pages/mcs021na.htm   (89 words)

  
 Beni Farah (Ain Zaatout) - Family Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mohamed VI lives in Biskra and has 1 son and 2 daughters.
Khoukha is married to Tahar Ben Hamza and lives in Biskra.
Massaad is married to Mohammed Benchaira and currently lives in Biskra.
www.geocities.com /beni_farah/FamilyDirectory.html   (957 words)

  
 (GCBD52) Biskra Palms Oasis Cache by TEAM Nohoch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This cache is placed in the Biskra Palms area of Indio Hills.
Biskra Palms is a somewhat remote area where the San Andreas fault captures groundwater that nurtures the palms.
Access to Biskra Palms is easiest by following the power line road at the North end of Washington Street.
www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=48466   (589 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Labed, University of Biskra, Algeria 16.00 — 16.30 Coffee Break Session 4 Chairman : Hacène Djellout 16.30 — 17.00 Caractérisation des processus de Schrödinger à l’aide des grandes déviations A.
Bahlali, University of Biskra, Algeria Sunday December 7 Session 5 Chairman : Jan Grandell 9.00 — 10.00 Dependence, extremes and large deviations with application to financial and insurance risks B.
Mezerdi, University of Biskra, Algeria 14.30 — 15.00 Homogenization of a linear singular parabolic operator with locally periodic coefficients and Lp condition on regular term of order zero: a probabilistic approach A.
www.cerist.dz /manifpub/programIWPSA.doc   (643 words)

  
 LondonTown.com | Biskra Guide | Biskra London, WD17, England, UK | London Streets by Street
Biskra is located in the borough of Watford District
Below we present a selection of upcoming events, local attractions and great places to eat and shop.
The nearest underground station to Biskra is 'Watford ' which is about 27 minutes to the South West.
www.londontown.com /LondonStreets/biskra_706.html   (89 words)

  
 WW2 Photos of 1st Fighter Group airfield at Biskra, Algeria 1942 - 1943   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lt Tony Sgroi showing Maj "Rudy" Rudell how he shot down a JU-88, taking off in pursuit after it made a dusk dive-bombing attack on Biskra 28 Dec1942.
Capt "Bucky" Harris with Margaret Bourke White (Life Magazine photographer), Biskra, 2 Jan 43.
A 10 January raid started fires on 3 aircraft - a B-17, C-47 and a P-38, and killed an airman beside the B-17.
www.1stfighter.org /photos/1stBasesBiskra.html   (183 words)

  
 The Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra), 1907   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Biskra is an oasis (fertile land next to a bleak desert) on the northern side of the Sahara where a n.
image is full of literal & symbolic references of the environment of Biskra: palm trees, lush green grass, & flowers
Blue in many of Matisse’s N. African paintings (possibly blue-tinged skin from local Berber tribe who used indigo dye in their textiles)
www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu /~tyarboro/Mat2/tsld010.htm   (174 words)

  
 BISKRA - Online Information article about BISKRA
The name Biskra applies to a See also:
UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)
village is that of Sidi Okba, 12 M. south-east of Biskra.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /BER_BLA/BISKRA.html   (1157 words)

  
 Algeria - The Roman Era   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A.D. established a frontier in the south by encircling the Aurès and Nemencha mountains and building a line of forts from Vescera (modern Biskra) to Ad Majores (Hennchir Besseriani, southeast of Biskra).
The defensive line extended at least as far as Castellum Dimmidi (modern Messaad, southwest of Biskra), Roman Algeria's southernmost fort.
Romans settled and developed the area around Sitifis (modern Sétif) in the second century, but farther west the influence of Rome did not extend beyond the coast and principal military roads until much later.
www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-318.html   (625 words)

  
 Biskra TAXI
11/24/06, Algeria, Biskra, 5, 0, Two civilians are among three people killed in an ambush by the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat.
HISTOIRE Coup de théâtre au palais Bourbon Par Mahdi Hocine
Ses dix mille hectares sont arrosés par sept barrages érigés sur l’oued de Biskra illégalement,s ans autorisation préfectorale.
www.infotaxi.org /city-816.htm   (154 words)

  
 Do I Need A Jacket? - The Weather Right Now in BISKRA
The weather in BISKRA and information about BISKRA can be found here.
Information for BISKRA in the follwing categories: Event, movies, theatre, restaurant, hotel, shopping, dining, family.
All you ever needed to know about BISKRA and it's weather in particular.
www.doineedajacket.com /dinaj.asp?dinaj=DAUB   (192 words)

  
 BBC - Weather Centre - 5 Day Forecast in Celsius for Biskra, Algeria
BBC - Weather Centre - 5 Day Forecast in Celsius for Biskra, Algeria
Please move your mouse over a symbol to view its description.
BBC Weather Centre in association with the Met Office
www.bbc.co.uk /weather/5day.shtml?world=1070   (170 words)

  
 Biskra - Search Results - MSN Encarta
The town lies in a fertile oasis of the Sahara and is a trading center for nomads.
- city and oasis on the edge of the Sahara Desert in Biskra Province, northeastern Algeria.
How well did we match your search term?
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 MS1725.Fire Bomb Test   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lt. Leigh had no bombing tables for this.,con figuration on They were to be dropped from 300 feet into a small lake a few miles away.
There was only a telephone and a reluctant French noncom in
We never did find out the outcome of our gas and oil bombs.
www.b-26marauderarchive.org /MS/MS1725/MS1725.htm   (2239 words)

  
 Biskra Beach Hotel - Ryde - Biskra Beach Hotel Reviews - TripAdvisor
I am writing this a while after we went, however I can assure you that it was a fab hotel.
A misquote from a hotel guidebook leads guest to expect far nicer rooms.
Isle of Wight: "song lyrics about the ferry to the Isle of wight"
tripadvisor.com /Hotel_Review-g503890-d253694-Reviews-Biskra_Beach_H...   (340 words)

  
 BSK - Biskra, DZ - Airport - Great Circle Mapper
BSK - Biskra, DZ - Airport - Great Circle Mapper
This information may not be accurate or current and is not valid for navigation or flight planning.
Please see credits for attribution and copyright information.
gc.kls2.com /airport/BSK   (77 words)

  
 →    Current time in Biskra (ولاية بسكرة)
Standard Time difference compared to UTC/GMT is +1 hours.
The 5 digit city code for Biskra (ولاية بسكرة) is XDAUB.
You can enter the 5 digit city code on the advanced preference page.
www.timegenie.com /city.time/xdaub   (262 words)

  
 PROSTITUTION - Old Vintage Antique Postcard Postcards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
OULED NAILS : "(...) Berber tribe whose territory extends from Biskra to Jelfa in Algeria.
- ALGERIA - Biskra : The Ouled Nails Red Light Quarter (Unused Postcard).
- ALGERIA - Biskra : The Red-Light Quarter (Unused Postcard, Undivided back).
www.postcardman.net /prostitution.html   (494 words)

  
 The Coachella Valley Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It typically occurs in these fluvial mud hills in washes and along the lower slopes.
It is known to occur from Macomber Palms and Biskra Palms on the Coachella Valley Preserve east along the base of the Indio Hills.
INDIO HILLS - BISKRA PALMS: several sites from 3.2 mi.
www.cvmshcp.org /sp_79.htm   (555 words)

  
 Cheap flights to Biskra by Just the Flight
Cheap flights to Biskra by Just the Flight
For flights to Biskra please call 08718 551 551 and our flights specialists will do their best to find a fare.
Unfortunately we are unable to offer an online searching facility for flights to Biskra.
www.justtheflight.co.uk /cheap-flights/BSK-biskra.html   (112 words)

  
 Weather from Biskra
Current Conditions From AWS WeatherNet Weather Station at Biskra in Biskra, WORLD
Weather content on this page is for private and educational use only.
Commercial use is strictly prohibited without expressed written consent.
www.aws.com /wx.asp?id=DAUB&units=1   (33 words)

  
 Wilaya de Biskra Travel Guide - Vacations - VirtualTourist.com
Home » Travel Guides » Africa » Algeria » Wilaya de Biskra
Plan a Wilaya de Biskra vacation with reviews, tips and photos posted by real travelers and Wilaya de Biskra locals.
Tips and Photos about Wilaya de Biskra in General
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