Djinet
Djinet
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Djinet (Arabic: جنّات Jannāt), the classical Cissi, is a port town and commune in the Bordj Menaïel District of Boumerdès Province, Algeria, east of the mouth of the Isser River and around Cape Djinet. As of 2008, the population of the municipality is 21,966.[1]
The town is particularly notable for its power plant and accompanying desalination unit.[2] A fishing port recently built there, originally scheduled to open in 2007, became fully operational only in 2016 due to problems with sand accumulation.[3]
History
Djinet was a
After the
After 484, it disappears from written sources for several centuries, including the 7th-8th century Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, only to reappear in the 11th century work of al-Idrisi under the new name of Jannād, after a Berber tribe then living in the area.[8] It was known to medieval European geographers as Berengereto. By the 18th century, Djinet was a small port town serving the farmers of the surrounding lowlands, described by Thomas Shaw in the following terms:
- ...we come to the little port of Jinnett, from which a great quantity of grain is shipped off yearly to Christendom. Jinnett is a small creek, with tolerably good anchoring grounds before it; and was probably Edrisi's Mers' el Dajaje, or Port of Hens. I was told that Jinnett, or Paradise, was given to this place, on account of a row-boat, which was once very providentially conducted within the creek, when the mariners expected every moment to have perished upon the neighbouring rocks.[9]
The area was conquered by France in 1837 in the wake of the First Battle of the Issers, and remained under French rule until Algeria's independence in 1962.
In 1986, a gas-powered thermal power plant was commissioned at Djinet, manufactured by Siemens with a capacity of 704 MW.[10]
Ecclesiastical history
Roman Cissi was a
- At a Africa Proconsularis and presently in Tunisia(Sidi-Tabet?).
- In 484, Bishop Reparatus of Cissi was one of the Catholic bishops whom the
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as the
- Jean de Capistran Aimé Cayer, OFM(1949.06.17 – 1978.04.13)
- SJ(1978.06.08 – 1989.12.30)
- Olindo Natale Spagnolo Martellozzo, MCCJ (1990.02.02 – 2008.07.23)
- Enrique Eguía Seguí (2008.09.04 to present), Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Buenos Aires
Transport
Djinet is connected to the rest of the country through a single main road: RN 24, a coastal road leading to
Notable people
See also
References
Citations
- ^ "Recensement Génaral de la Population et de l'Habitat". Archived from the original on 5 October 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
- ^ Mourad Amitouche & Boualem Remini (2016) Operation of Cap Djinet desalination plant and dilution of brine with power station cooling water, Desalination and Water Treatment, 57:8, 3514-3521, DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2014.987824
- ^ Port mixte de Cap Djinet : Une nouvelle halle aux poissons; Boumerdès Port de pêche de Cap Djinet : du sable, en attendant le poisson
- ^ KAI 170:
[𐤍𐤑]𐤁 𐤆 𐤀𐤔 𐤍𐤃𐤓 𐤅𐤀𐤔 𐤈[𐤍𐤀]
𐤃𐤓𐤊 𐤀𐤃𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋 𐤄𐤔𐤊𐤔𐤉 𐤀𐤔
𐤁𐤏𐤌 𐤋𐤊𐤔 𐤋𐤀[𐤃𐤍...] - ^ Lipiński (2004), p. 401.
- Geogr.
- ^ a b c d J. Ferron, v. Cissi, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XII, Parigi 1953, coll. 851-852
- ^ J.-P. Laporte, "Cissi", Encyclopédie berbère
- ^ Thomas Shaw, 3rd ed. 1808 (1st ed. 1738), Travels Or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant: Illustrated with Copperplates, Volume 1, p. 88
- ^ "Siemens Algeria | infoElec". 18 October 2016.
- ^ a b Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 138
- ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 871
- ^ "Atlas Routier de l'Algérie : Wilaya de Boumerdès". Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
Bibliography
- GCatholic - (former &) titular bishopric
- Ferron, J. (1953), "Cissi", Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie Ecclésiastiques, vol. XII, Paris, col. 851-852
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- Morcelli, Stefano Antonio (1816), Africa Christiana, vol. I, Brescia, p. 138.