Ghazaouet

Ghazaouet or Djemaa el Ghazaouet is an Algerian commune of the wilaya of Tlemcen , near the Moroccan border , placed 72 km north-west of Tlemcen , 50 km north of Maghnia and 34 km as the crow flies east of the Moroccan metropolis of Saidia. In Roman instances , the metropolis turned into referred to as Ad Fratres because of two rocks of 25 m near the coast 3. In 1846 , the town is known as Nemours, in honor of Louis of Orleans , Duke of Nemours.

In December 1847, that is wherein the legitimate surrender of Emir Abd el-Kader earlier than the Duke of Aumale , Governor General of Algeria . The emir spends his ultimate night in Algeria at Dar El Assakri, earlier than being taken to Toulon. Subsequently, in the administrative framework of French Algeria , Nemours is a part of the department of Oran , then the branch of Tlemcen .The call of the commune is the masculine shape of the Berber word taghzouyt meaning hollowed out and designating a set of fields located in the plain, the valley of Soummam, a plain among mountains five.