Dellys

Dellys
دلس
Delles (Berber)
City and Common
Dellys
Motto(s): "From the people, for the people"

Location of Taher in the Boumerdès Province
Dellys
Location of Dellys in the Algeria
Coordinates: 36°54′48″N 3°54′51″E / 36.913272°N 3.914094°E / 36.913272; 3.914094Coordinates: 36°54′48″N 3°54′51″E / 36.913272°N 3.914094°E / 36.913272; 3.914094
Country  Algeria
Province Boumerdès Province
District Dellys District
APC 2012-2017
Government
 • Type Municipality
 • Mayor Rabah Zerouali (RND)
Area
 • Total 2,504 sq mi (64,86 km2)
Population (2008)
 • Total 32,954 [1]
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
Postal code 35100
ISO 3166 code CP
Website Official website
Cap Bengut Lighthouse
The three lighthouses at Cape Bengut
Algeria
Location Cap Bengut
Dellys
Boumerdès Province
Algeria
Coordinates 36°55′20.32″N 3°53′35.76″E / 36.9223111°N 3.8932667°E / 36.9223111; 3.8932667
Year first constructed 1881 (first)
2004 (second)
Year first lit 2010 (current)
Deactivated 2003 (first)
2010 (second)
Construction masonry tower (first)
metal skeletal tower (second)
concrete tower (current)
Tower shape quadrangular tower with balcony and lantern (first)
triangular skeletal tower with balcony and light (second)
octagonal prism tower with four buttresses with balcony and lantern
Markings / pattern white tower, green lantern dome (first)
red tower with a white band atop (second)
unpainted white concrete, grey metallic lantern (current)
Height 29 metres (95 ft) (first)
20 metres (66 ft) (second)
28.9 metres (95 ft) (current)
Focal height 63 metres (207 ft)
Range 30 nautical miles (56 km; 35 mi)[2]
Characteristic Fl (4) W 15s.[2]
Admiralty number E6592
NGA number 22360
ARLHS number ALG-005
Algeria number DZ-2700[3]
Managing agent Office Nationale de Signalisation Maritime

Dellys (Arabic: دلّس‎, Berber: Delles) is a small Mediterranean town in northern Algeria's coastal Boumerdès Province, almost due north of Tizi-Ouzou and just east of the river Sebaou.

It is notable for an Ottoman-era Casbah of Dellys, two colonial-era lighthouses (marking Cape Bengut), and some beaches; the principal activities of the area are fishing and farming.

In 1998 it had a population of 19,500 in the municipality.[4]

Demographics

Historical population[4]
YearPopulation
190114,000
192617,000
195421,600
196610,300
198729,700
16,100 (municipality)
199819,500 (municipality)

History

It was originally a Phoenician (Punic) founding, called Rusucurru or Rusuccuru.[5]

As a town in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis, it was important enough to become a suffragan bishopric.

In medieval times, the city was called Tedelles.

Bombing

On September 8, 2007, at least 30 people were killed and 47 injured in an Al-Qaeda-claimed suicide car bomb attack on an Algerian naval barracks in Dellys [6]

Ecclesiastical history

In Roman times, Rusuccuru became an episcopal see. The names of a few of its bishops are known:[7]

  • Fortunatus (mentioned in 411)
  • Optatus (a Donatist mentioned in 411)
  • Ninellus (mentioned in 419)
  • Metcum (mentioned in 484)

Titular see of Rusuccuru

No longer a residential see, the bishopric of Rusuccuru is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.[8] In Latin the titular bishopric is known as Rusuccurrensis.

The Ancient diocese was nominally restored in 1933 and so far has had the following incumbents, all Latin (Roman Rite) and of the lowest (episcopal) rank :

See also

References

  1. ↑ ONS Statistic (Boumerdès province) Archived 2013-03-13 at WebCite
  2. 1 2 List of Lights, Pub. 113: The West Coasts of Europe and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and Azovskoye More (Sea of Azov) (PDF). List of Lights. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2015.
  3. ↑ "Algeria". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  4. 1 2 populstat.info Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ Entry Rusucurru, in: The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical sites. Stillwell, Richard. MacDonald, William L. McAlister, Marian Holland. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press. 1976.
  6. ↑ Al-Qaeda claims Algerian bombings retrieved September 10, 2007
  7. ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 268
  8. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 961


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