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  Tebessa
It is the capital of Tebessa province with 610,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate) and an area of 14,227 km².
Tebessa's economy is based upon a mixture of phosphate mining in el-Kouif 15 km northeast, trade in sheep, esparto grass, and grain.
Tebessa is well-connected with other urban centres of Algeria by road and rail and Kasserine in Tunisia by road.
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 The Tebessa region
In this semi-arid regions, where a drop of rain miraculously reestablishes flora on the steppe, it is not rare to encounter relics of civilisations which have succeeded each other and retell the history of Tebessa.
Cheria, 50Km away from Tebessa, town of the famous Cheikh Chbouki, great poet in his time who also wrote patriotic songs, is renouned for the quality of its muttons.
Scenery from the hights of Tebessa from the Roman Amphitheatre
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  Tebessa
It is the capital of Tebessa province with 610,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate) and an area of 14,227 km².
Tebessa's economy is based upon a mixture of phosphate mining in el-Kouif 15 km northeast, trade in sheep, esparto grass, and grain.
Tebessa is well-connected with other urban centres of Algeria by road and rail and Kasserine in Tunisia by road.
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 Tebessa
Tebessa (Theveste) Algeria Road and rail junction situated near the Tunisian border, and the administrative capital of the district, which is an important phosphate-mining region.
Tebessa was destroyed by Vandals in the 5th century AD, but restored by the Byzantines in the 6th century, and the modern city lies within Byzantine walls.
It was strategically important to the Allies in February 1943, when it was captured from the Germans and successfully defended against one of the last counter-thrusts in the North Africa campaign made by the German general Erwin Rommel (1891-1944).
www.awg.faithweb.com /en/wilaya/tebessa.html   (209 words)

  
 The Hammer of Hell
Realizing the line of contact was closing in on Tebessa, Harriman continued to strengthen its defense by assigning the 2d Battalion there to augment the coverage of the 1st Battalion, 213th Coast Artillery Regiment and Battery D, 106th Coast Artillery Battalion, which had been near Tebessa for several weeks.
Tebessa was well covered, and the 1st Armored division had antiaircraft artillery help, but Task Force Welvert on the Bou Chebka Plateau and Task Force Stark in Kasserine Pass required protection.
Battery B was assigned to the defenses of Tebessa, and Battery D was assigned to defend the forces in Kasserine Pass.
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 eternel2002 Wilaya de Tebessa Travel Page - VirtualTourist.com
TEBESSA (ancient THEVESTE) was an important Roman city, situated in extream eastern algeria, 40 km from the Tunisian border.
Tebessa is the capital of the Wilaya, whose population is estimated to be 520 000 inhabitants.
The region of tebessa is also reputed for it's sheep and its splendid tradionnal carpets.
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 Empres Transboundary Animal Diseases Bulletin No. 14/2 - Radiscon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The latest outbreak observed was on 5 August 2000 in the wilaya of Tebessa in the commune of Lahouidjbet.
Since the vaccine in use gives protection for a long period, the proportion of immunized animals would be superior to the number of vaccinated animals, as indicated by the limited number of clinical cases observed (1 to 3 percent) by outbreak.
The central-eastern part of the country (comprising the wilayat of Biskra, M'Sila, Djelfa, Tebessa and Saida) is identified as the most-affected area and the majority of the 23 observed outbreaks were reported in these zones.
www.fao.org /DOCREP/003/X8491E/X8491e07.htm   (1395 words)

  
 Workman: Algerian Memories
From this place to Tebessa was the longest distance ridden during our trip between two towns-- viz., fifty-four kilometres, with but one house on the way.
The modern Tebessa, seventeen kilometres from the Tunisian frontier, stands on the site of the once important Roman city of Theveste, at the entrance of the valleys that lead into the Tunisian Sahara.
A few kilometres south-west of Tebessa, near some ruins, tracks in the rock made by the wheels of Roman wagons may be seen for a distance of two kilometres.
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 Historical Text Archive: Articles: The Tunisian Task Force
On 13 November, Colonel Raff was advised by British First Army that his battalion was to jump on Tebessa, Algeria with the mission of denying the airfield located there to the Axis.
Immediately, a group of one hundred fifty men were started toward Tebessa to accomplish the remainder of the mission.
Upon arrival in Tebessa, Colonel Raff was quick to see the strategic advantage of the Allies controlling central Tunisia.
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 The Tebessa Manichaean Manuscript
F. Decret, "Aspects de l'Église Manichéenne: Remarques sur le manuscrit de Tebessa" in A. Zumkeller (ed.), Signum Pietatis: Festgabe für Cornelius Petrus Mayer OSA zum 60.
M. Stein, "Bemerkungen zum Kodex von Tebessa" in J. van Oort, O. Wermelinger and G. Wurst (eds.), Augustine and Manichaeism in the Latin West: Proceedings of the Fribourg-Utrecht International Symposium of the IAMS (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 49), Leiden: Brill, 2001, 250-71.
Stein thinks (258) that the Tebessa text’s original language was Latin, in which case it probably originated in Africa.
www.tertullian.org /rpearse/manuscripts/tebessa.htm   (413 words)

  
 Tebessa - Current News & Information   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Seven hundred were killed last Thursday at two pastoral communities at Tlidjen and Bir El-Ater in Tebessa region, some 600 kilometres (360 miles) east of the...
Some reports indicated that similar attacks, albeit on a smaller scale, were committed in the southern Algerian town of Tebessa during the same month as the...
Tebessa news from Sept 2004 to Dec 2004
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 Reporter for El Watan attacked and kidnapped : imprimer   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Beliardouh, correspondent for the French-language El Watan in Tebessa, was attacked at his home by four officials of the chamber of commerce of Nememchas (covering Tebessa and Souk Ahras), one of them armed, and including the chamber’s president, Saâd Garboussi.
Beliardouh was beaten up in front of his family and then dragged by the collar through the streets of the town to a square, where he was beaten further and publicly insulted.
El Watan filed a complaint with the state prosecutor in Tebessa for "kidnapping and intimidation" and called on the local authorities to ensure the safety of Beliardouh, whose attackers told him that if he repeated his error, he and his family would be killed.
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 The Hammer of Hell
After a conference with Rommel, Buelowius was ordered to block the Tebessa road while the 10th Panzer passed through the Afrika Corps and attacked along the Thala road.
On the Tebessa road, Buelowius’ reconnaissance elements ran into American tanks near Djebel Hamra from Combat Command B, 1st Armored Division, which had moved into the Bled Foussana during the late afternoon.
As Rommel reached the mouth of the pass, Harriman thickened the defense of the most vulnerable and critical Tebessa logistical complex, and collected and then allocated his few remaining forces to the most critical forward combat elements--field artillery battalions.
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 CNN.com - Mass grave from Algerian war found - April 24, 2001
The grave was discovered last month during water canal-building works in Tebessa province, about 630 km (390 miles) east of Algiers.
The mass grave was the biggest of FLN fighters found in the past decade, the pro-government newspaper El Moudjahid said.
Tebessa, which borders Tunisia, was the scene of bloody battles between independence fighters and the French army during the war.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/africa/04/24/algeria.grave   (228 words)

  
 APS Review Downstream Trends: ALGERIA - Annaba & Tebessa Plants.@ HighBeam Research
Its output was raised to around 85% of capacity from 1985.
Sonatrach later contracted a consortium of Hitachi and Marubeni of Japan and Polymex-Cekkop of Poland to build two new phosphate fertiliser plants at Annaba and Tebessa.
The Annaba plant consists of two sulphuric acid units with a combined capacity of 495,000...
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:97785593&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (211 words)

  
 FA Journal: How artillery beat Rommel after Kasserine - World War II - the Red Fox
He was to "force march" to Tebessa, meaning, "Go!--and don't let anything stand in your way." By late afternoon, a long column of artillery started on its now famous trek with General Irwin commanding.
Because its 155-mm howitzers were the heaviest and the slowest, the 34th Field Artillery Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel William C. Westmoreland and his Executive Officer, Major Otto Kerner, Jr., led the Div Arty column.
Near their destination of Tebessa, the retreating II Corps troops and vehicles coming at them from the opposite direction slowed the column.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0IAU/is_3_7/ai_89811369   (1539 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Theveste
Under the name of Tebessa it is the capital of a canton of the Department of
It has 7000 inhabitants, of whom about 1200 are Europeans.
Tebessa is very rich in ancient monuments, among them being a triumphal
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14634a.htm   (225 words)

  
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This distinction, although subsequently ignored in the polemic of the early twentieth century, persist today in the distinction made between the Typical Capsian and Upper Capsian facets of the Capsian industry.
A few miles from Tebessa, a remarkable example of ancient measures for the conservation of water.
At some time in the Roman or possibly pre-Roman period, peoples of this region built check dams to divert storm water around the slope -- in canals that the French are now cleaning out again -- to spread upon a remarkable series of bench terraces.
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 Kuna site|Story page|Gunmen kill five people in Tebessa Province ...9/5/2007
ALGIERS, Sept 4 (KUNA) -- Five people, including soldiers, were killed Tuesday by hands of gunmen in Tebessa Province 800 KM East of the capital.
A security source revealed that gunmen linked to the Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC) stormed a house in village located in Tebessa province, killing a man in the process.
The GSPC gunmen rigged the area with explosives before leaving, leading to the death of three Algerian soldiers in addition to an official from the civil defense, concluded the source.
www.kuna.net.kw /home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=1017253   (107 words)

  
 IFEX :: Managing director of the satirical weekly "El-Kalaa" detained; editor-in-chief released on bail
On 20 May 1996, Mahmoud Boumedjria, the managing director of the satirical weekly "El-Kalaa", was placed on a committal order ("mandat de depot") by the prosecutor's office of Tebessa, in eastern Algeria.
He was not charged but his request for bail was denied by the presiding magistrate.
He is currently being held in a prison in Tebessa.
www.ifex.org /en/content/view/full/3217   (243 words)

  
 443rd AAA Bn - World War II - Satin Task Force   (Site not responding. Last check: )
By 13 January Platoon A-1 was detached from the 39th Infantry Regiment and attached to II Corps rear echelon seven miles east of Tebessa.
The 443rd Provisional Battalion (minus 1 platoon) became a part of Satin Task Force which, spearheaded by the 1st Armored Division, was to move on 22 January in aggressive action to capture either Gabes or Sfax on the Gulf of Tunis and cut the German Afrika Corps’ lines of communication along the Tunisian coast.
German air activity was frequent and vigorous, and enemy air transports were bringing in reinforcements at the rate of 800 per day.
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The Italians were to attack in the North, but the Americans would quickly realise that this was a diversionary attack and assume that the 10th Panzer division's attack was the real one.
The Allied player threw his reinforcements at the German attacks, forgetting his earlier mistakes and again learnt the hard way, event ually pulling back what he had left into a line, West and East of Tebessa, and was confident that with the Artillery he was soon to get, he could deny Tebessa to the Germans.
The 21st Panzer division and DAK made a last attack on Tebessa, akin to El Alamri but with different results thanks to a verv high dice-throw on the part of the German player, this was just not the Allied player's day.
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 The Origin of the Cult of St. Maximilian of Tebessa
The Origin of the Cult of St. Maximilian of Tebessa
According to the surviving account of St. Maximilian, he was a military recruit who was executed on 12 March 295 for his refusal to accept military service.
This file may be copied for the purpose of private research only.
www.ucc.ie /milmart/maxorig.html   (1290 words)

  
 BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | French general in Algeria torture claim
The family of an Algerian Independence War fighter who was allegedly tortured by French military forces in the 1950s is reported to have filed a legal suit against retired French general, Paul Aussaresses.
Algerian newspapers say the court in the eastern town of Tebessa has accepted the law suit against General Aussaresses.
The State Prosecutor in Tebessa is quoted as saying that the suit could lead to an international arrest warrant against the 83-year-old general.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1330000/1330576.stm   (318 words)

  
 The Vautours Pages-IAF Vautours, Ferries and Arrivals
Two flights were carried out also via Tebessa, Algeria, as stops at Bizerta became too dangerous when this town was actually besieged.
* At Tebessa the two IIN could refuel only the internal tanks, because of the airfield's height and due to very high temperature (35 c) which disabled them to take off with maximal load.
In Tebessa Somech and Ash switched aircraft: Ash flew the 329 with I. Erez and Somech flew the "28".
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 WLUML: Publications  
Feminists in Algeria, while critical of the patriarchal nature of the state, continue to call for its intervention to halt the Islamist upsurge and to implement social policies based on a model of universal citizenry.
[1] The Tidjania group of Tebessa is a residual branch of the larger African Islamic sect that has practiced trance dancing for healing purposes, in particular as therapy in exorcising "bad spirits".
My marriage into an influential family of Tebessa, a small town (approximately 700 km southeast of Algiers) with residual tribal configurations, returned me to statuses, roles and behavior expressive more of kin constraints and allegiances than of a free and autonomous individual directly relating to state institutions and structures.
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 Middle East Online
Algerian security forces spent weeks combing area for GSPC members near Tebessa before killing them.
ALGIERS - Algerian security forces have shot dead six armed Islamists near the town of Tebessa, 630 kilometres (270 miles) east of the capital Algiers, a security source said Friday.
The security forces, who killed the men on Thursday, have spent weeks combing the area for members of the Islamist group GSPC headed by Hassan Hattab, discovering some of the group's arms during their operations.
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