Jijel

Jijel the classical Igilgili, is the capital of Jijel Province in north-eastern Algeria. It is flanked by means of the Mediterranean Sea in the area of Corniche Jijelienne and had a population of 131,513 in 2008. Jijel is the administrative and alternate middle for a location that specialize in cork processing, leather-based tanning and steelmaking. Local vegetation encompass citrus and grain. Fishing is also of notable importance. Tourists are interested in Jijel for its landscapes and first-class sand beaches. Igilgili become first inhabited with the aid of Berber tribes, the maximum distinguished of which were the Kutama.

Originally a Phoenician colony the town passed to the Carthaginians, the Roman Republic and Empire, the Vandals, the Byzantines, the Umayyads, the Genovese, and the Ottomans. It turned into conquered for the last within the 16th century with the aid of Hayreddin Barbarossa. In July 1664, the French took the town. Resistance was organized beneath the route of Shaban Aga and the French had been driven out in October of the identical year. Jijel remained a corsair stronghold until recaptured by way of the French in 1839.