Mostaganem

Mostaganem is a port city in and capital of Mostaganem province, within the northwest of Algeria. The town, based inside the 11th century lies at the Gulf of Arzew, Mediterranean Sea and is 72 km ENE of Oran. It has 245,330 inhabitants as of the 2014 census. The metropolis become founded inside the eleventh century as Murustage but has origins going again to Punic and Roman times. In 1516 it turned into captured via the Ottoman admiral Barbarossa and have become a centre for Mediterranean sea corsairs, as well as a business port. By 1700 it had come below Ottoman rule and in 1833 the town become taken with the aid of France and a garrison established. Algeria became unbiased in 1962.

Mostaganem corresponds to the historic Punic port of Murustaga. After turning into part of the Roman Empire, it turned into, according to some sources, officially renamed Cartennae beneath the emperor Gallienus . However, in step with more weighty sources, Cartennae corresponds as a substitute to trendy Téns, 50 km to the east. In any case, Murustaga is the call by way of which the metropolis changed into regarded whilst it have become a Christian bishopric, and by means of which it's far cited within the Catholic Church's listing of episcopal sees. It also underlies the modern call of Mostaganem.