In the heart of a green region blessed by an important rainfall, Jijel is a small city with an agricultural vocation. The mountainous coast of Jijel is lined with fine sandy beaches protected by the dense forests of Taza, Guerrouche, Tamazguida and Oued-Zhor which benefit from a high level of humidity.History. The fertility of the land of Jijel has attracted the covetousness through the centuries, starting with the Phoenicians who called it the small Igilgili and the Romans who have very early established a trading post from which left to Rome the ships loaded with cereals grown in the plains of the surroundings. Rare traces of the Roman occupation have been found around Jijel, here a piece of mosaic or there foundations. After the passage of the Vandals who were hardly interested in it, we find few mentions of the small city where the Byzantines probably settled. In the tenth century, the Islamized region, and more particularly the never-located site of Ikjan, which we imagine to be close to Mila, saw the departure of Berber troops under the command of Ubaydullah. At the end of the road, they made fall the kingdom of Kairouan and gave birth to the dynasty of the Fatimides whose new caliph affirms to be descended from the Prophet by Fatima, his daughter.It is necessary to wait for the occupation of the near Sicily by the Normans to find written traces of Jijel which was in decline until this date. In the 12th century, the Norman king Roger II sent his ships to the coasts of the Maghreb. When the Christians landed in Jijel in 1143, only remarkable for the presence of the Hammadite palace of the Emir Yahia of Bejaia, they razed the city and left commercial counters without really settling there. The geographer el-Idrisi tells that the Normans landed every summer, making the inhabitants flee to the mountains.

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