South of the chain of Tessala marking the southern shore of the Greater Sabkha of Oran (32 000 ha), the plain and the town of Sidi-Bel-Abbès are dominated by the heavy mass   limestone of the causse oranais and by the Daya hills. The town where the singer Sheikha Remitti and Marcel Cerdan, Edith's boxer, are born, is located almost equidistant between Oran and Tlemcen and bears the name of a man who would have lived here in the 1,5 th century and whose marabout is km from the city centre.For the visitor Sidi-Bel-Abbès is a dynamic city whose straight streets are pleasant to travel. The place de la Mairie, with its bandstand, and the town hall itself show a lot of nostalgia.History. In 1840, French soldiers installed a camp in the plain and, in 1843, French General Sexton made a stone's throw from the marabout a fortin intended to counter the uprisings of the Blessed Ameur, a confederation of tribes that had occupied the region since at least the th century. In September 1845, General Lamoricière suffered a heavy defeat against the men of the Emir Abdelkader, but the Blessed Ameur were finally defeated and Deported. A French city is then built that will remain the seat of the 1 st Foreign Infantry Regiment of the Foreign Legion, which came to take its neighbourhoods in Aubagne (Bouches-du-Rhône) after Independence, with the Cameron (in memory of a battle delivered in Mexico in 1863) inscribed on their uniforms and the military march, Le Boudin, the anthem of the Legion since the th century. century.

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