Reghaia

Reghaia is a municipality in Algiers province, Algeria. It is located in Rouïba district and is the maximum populated municipality of the district. Reghaia unique call are re agha , vicinity agha , the urbanization of the location began with the arriving of the Ouled Hadjadj tribe, with origins from brand new Morocco. During the begin of the French rule in Algeria, Reghaia came into existence as a district by means of an act signed through Napoleon III in 1858, and it became a basically agricultural colony of 3000 hectares which have been given to 2 French settler households Mercier and Saussine the latter become Franco-American.

The contemporary day municipality was created in 1974, 12 years after the Algerian independency, as it changed into cut out from the municipality of Rouiba to shape its personal defined territory, but nonetheless inside the province of Algiers. In 1985, Reghaia, along Rouiba, Ain taya, Dergena and El Marsa were included to the newly created province of Boumerdes. This administrative reorganization become pretty highly-priced for the municipality of Reghaia, as large part of its territory changed into used to form the newly created municipalities.