Mascara - Travel & Tourism Guide Mascara - Algérie

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At 100 km southeast of Oran and at an altitude of 600 m, Mascara is the well-known domain of Algerian wine production protected to the north by the Beni Chougran mountains. Its history began at least 400,000 years ago, the age of the bones found and grouped under the name of Ternifine man. At the beginning of the XVIIIth century, the city became the seat of the Turkish beylicat until the arrival of the Spaniards in 1791. In 1832, the Emir Abdelkader chose to settle there to resist the French who occupied the city between 1834 and 1837 before leaving it in the hands of the "chief of the believers".