Bejaia

Bejaia previously Bougie and Bugia, is a Mediterranean port town on the Gulf of Bejaia in Algeria; it is the capital of Bejaia Province, Kabylia. Bejaia is the largest principally Kabyle-speakme city within the Kabylie place of Algeria. The history of Bejaia explains the variety of the local populace. According to Al-Bakri, the bay was first inhabited by way of Andalusians.

Bejaia stands at the website online of the historical city of Saldae, a minor port in Carthaginian and Roman times, in an area at the beginning inhabited through Numidian Berbers and founded as a colony for vintage infantrymen by way of emperor Augustus. It turned into an critical metropolis and a bishopric inside the province of Mauretania Caesariensis, and later Sitifensis. Coin of the Hafsids, with ornamental Kufic script, from Bejaia hello, 1249 to 1276. In the 5th century, Saldae became the capital of the quick-lived Vandal Kingdom of the Germanic Vandals, which ended in approximately 533 with the Byzantine conquest, which mounted an African prefecture and later the Exarchate of Carthage.