Maghnia
Maghnia
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Maghnia (
Arabic: مغنية) (formerly Marnia) is a town in Tlemcen Province, northwestern Algeria. It is the second most populated town in Tlemcen Province, after Tlemcen. The current population is over 200,000.[citation needed
]
History
Phoenicians. The remnants of burned Ancient Roman military posts were discovered by the French army in 1836, when they entered the area; these posts were occupied, according to the inscriptions, by the numerus Severianus Alexandrinus Syrorum,[1] a unit of Syrian archers. As such, it was the westernmost outpost of Mauretania Caesariensis
.
Due to its convenient geographical location—within the
.The Berbers named the place Lalla Marnia (Lalla Maghnia), after a local saint buried in the vicinity. Her mausoleum was probably built in the 18th century.[citation needed]
Notable people
- Ahmed Ben Bella, the first President of independent Algeria, was born in Maghnia in 1916.
- Sid Ahmed Ghozali, politician
- Emma Vecla (1877–1972), French operatic soprano
- Mahboub Bachir, Moudjahid
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References
- ^ Huß, Werner. "Numerus Syrorum". Brill's New Pauly. Retrieved Aug 5, 2020.
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