Oran

Oran is a major coastal city located within the north-west of Algeria. It is taken into consideration the second one maximum critical town of Algeria after the capital Algiers, due to its industrial, industrial, and cultural importance. It is 432 km from Algiers. The general populace of the city turned into 759,645 in 2008, at the same time as the metropolitan area has a population of approximately 1,500,000 making it the second largest town in Algeria. A legend says that in 900 AD, lions nevertheless lived within the place. The last two lions had been hunted on a mountain close to Oran and are someplace else known as "mountain lions". The word derives from the Berber root hr, meaning lion.

The call is attested in multiple Berber languages, for instance as uharu and ahra. A locally popular legend tells that in the length round AD 900, there had been sightings of lions inside the vicinity. The two closing lions had been killed on a mountain near Oran, and it have become referred to as La montagne des lions. Two large lion statues stand in front of Oran's city corridor, symbolizing the metropolis.