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Central garden of the news Town « AKID OTHMANE »
of Ain Temouchent in Algeria
Aïn Témouchent is created from more than 15 000 years.
It is a city and a Wilaya (state) of the west of Algeria.
The name of the city is from the Arab « ayn » (source or...
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Central garden of the news Town « AKID OTHMANE »
of Ain Temouchent in Algeria
Aïn Témouchent is created from more than 15 000 years.
It is a city and a Wilaya (state) of the west of Algeria.
The name of the city is from the Arab « ayn » (source or fountain), and from Berber « Ouchent or touch » (the
chacale) giving in Arabic (Aïn El-Diba); in Latin, one called it Albulae.
Aïn Témouchent occupies a privileged
geographical situation because it is in proximity of three large cities (72 km in the east of Oran, 65 km in the north
of Sidi-Bel-Abbès, and 63 km in the east of Tlemcen).
Aïn Témouchent is 504 km in the west of Algiers.
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History of project:
Wednesday December 22, 1999, at 18h 36 mn 55s, a seism of an
amplitude of 5.
5 on the scale of Richter struck the town of Ain
Temouchent and the villages surrounding of Sidi Ben Adda,
Ain Tolba and Ain Lâalem, making 28 dead and 150 wounded
including 50 in a serious state.
Following this seism, a program of rebuilding was
implemente
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