Travel Guide Tiaret

To the south of the massif of Ouarsenis, at 1 050 m altitude on the plateau of Du favourable to cereal crops, the Columnata or Roman Tingartie was destroyed by the Vandals and then occupied by the Byzantine before becoming the capital of a numidian kingdom in the century.   In the th century, Tahert hosts a strong Ibadite community (Kharidjites) from Tunisia who, driven by the Fatimides, shirk in the th century to the south-east to base Sedrata (Ouargla) and the cities of M'Zab.In 1841, Bugeaud shaved the city where the Emir Abdelkader had built a fear in the village of Tagdempt, 6 km away. Several times destroyed and rebuilt in a colonial style, Tiaret has kept few traces of its prestigious past, but it is still possible to see in its close proximity to prehistoric sites, tombs dating from the Berber kingdoms and some rostémides remains (from the ibadite period).