At the bottom of the bay of Annaba, Khelij El-Morjane, on a coast nicely cut protected in the west by the massif of Edough and at the mouth of the oued Seybouse, Annaba is the fourth city of Algeria by the number of its inhabitants and by the importance of its port doubled by the industrial zone of El-Hadjar to the heavy smokes. But it remains a pleasant seaside city with a soft southern atmosphere. In the north-west, in the extension of the street Abdelhamid-Ben-Badis, a road ledge along beautiful beaches and rises to the assault of the rocky foothills of the Edough, crossing beautiful landscapes dominated by the green forests of oaks and scrub, and the deep blue of the Mediterranean. The plain to the south and east of Annaba is covered with fruit and vegetable crops that once surrounded the city center very closely.History. As early as the 11th century BC, the Phoenicians established a trading post in this bay which they called Hippo, "the shelter". Hippo Regius became Numidian, capital of the king Gaïa allied with Carthage until its fall in 146 BC and the defeat of Jugurtha, is annexed to the Roman province of Africa Nova under the name of Hippo (Hibouna). The city and its port prospered and became one of the dynamic centers of Christianity. In 430, Saint Augustine, the bishop of the city, died during the siege of the Vandals led by Genseric. They stayed for almost a century before being dislodged by the Byzantines under the leadership of Belisarius. When the Arabs arrived, belatedly because they preferred the roads of the interior, they built a city on the hill Sidi Marwan 2 km from the old dilapidated center of Hippo and gave it the name of Bonna El-Hadelsa, Hippo "the new", or Bled El-Anneb, before becoming Annaba, "the jujubes". In 1533, Kheir ed-Dine "Barberousse" seized the city and fortified Bouna which was resurrected as a port of the east and access road to Kassentina (Constantine). On July 26, 1830, twenty days after the capture of Algiers, General de Bourmont ordered an expedition to the port. The French troops had to fight for two years before getting their hands on the city which immediately became Bône. In 1914 and in 1942-1943, during the Second World War, the city was heavily bombed by the Germans and it was here that the Allied troops landed in 1942.

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