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 Tlemcen (local dialect: Tlemcen) is a city located in northwestern Algeria, the capital of the state of Tlemcen and the second most important city on the west side after Oran. It is 520 km from the capital, 140 km from Oran by the national road 22 and 110 km by the East-West highway, 40 km from the Moroccan border, and 40 km from the Mediterranean coast. It is bordered to the north by Shatwan and El Hanaya, to the east by Ain Faza and Wadi El Safsef, to the south by Terni and Jabal Bani Warnad, and to the west by Mansoura.

The Maghreb was home to most of the Zenit Berbers and their ancestors, who had a great influence on the history of the North African region.  It was known as Pomaria in Roman times, which was founded in the year 201. Then it was later known as "Agadir" and "the city of the wall" at the beginning of the Islamic era because it was the capital of the Ivernian state, then it was called "Tlemcen" at the beginning of the 9th century AD. The Almoravids established in 1080 near the old city the suburb of "Takarrat". And the city became the capital of the central Maghreb at the time of the Zayanite state for more than three centuries.

 

It is proud of its glorious and prosperous past, its Andalusian landmarks firmly established in the Great Islamic Maghreb, and the owner of picturesque natural sites, the “City of Art and History” as Georges Morsi called it. It is called the pearl of the Maghreb.

The city is situated in the middle of vineyards and olive groves and is famous for its leather, carpet, and textile industries. And all these influences have made it sit at the top of the tourist areas in Algeria.

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There are several opinions about the name of Tlemcen:

According to Yahya Bouaziz: The name Tlemcen is composed of two Berber words: "Talam" which means "together" and "San" which means "two", because it united the two cities of Tigrarat, founded by Youssef bin Tashfin, and Agadir , founded by Abu Qara Al-Yafrini on the ruins of Boumaria.

As for George Marsi, it is believed that the name Tlemcen (from the Berber Tala Yemsan, and the meaning of the word Tala has the spring, and Lemsan, meaning dry, becomes the word Tlemcen "dry spring").

And a saying that it is a deformation of the plural of Tlemcen with a fracture and a sukoon, and the singular tamas means a pocket of water or spring, so the name Tlemcen means the city of sources

As for what is being promoted by the general public, it is an Arabic word consisting of two words, tlemma - plural - and human to become tlemcen. The People's Assembly, even if it does not enjoy any scientific or historical support.

Tlemcen did not always bear this name, but it was called Boumaria, Agadir, then the Decisions, as I once had several nicknames, including the wall and the pearl of the Maghreb.

Personalities of the city of Tlemcen

• Ahmad al-Muqri al-Telmisani (1578-1632) Shihab al-Din Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Kharshi, an Arab historian.
• Abu Abdullah Al-Sharif Al-Tilmisani (1310-1370) Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ahmed bin Ali Al-Sharif Al-Idrisi Al-Tilmisani is one of the most famous scholars of the Maghreb
• David Sharbit (1860-1925) businessman
• Larbi bin Sari (1867-1964) was the father of al-Hawzi al-Telmisani
• Eugénie Buffet (1866-1934) was a great French singer with a variety of rhythms
• Henri Dixon (1872-1938), French singer
• Abdel Aziz Zenaqoui (1877-1932) was a writer, poet and professor of Arabic at the Sorbonne
• Muhammad al-Hashimi (1881-1961), a Sunni mystic theologian.
• Messali El-Hajj (1898-1974) was the spiritual father of the Algerian revolution and one of the first to openly call for Algeria's complete independence from France and the founder of the Algerian People's Party
• Abdel Halim Hamish (1906-1979) painter

• Abd al-Hamid ibn Ashnhou (1907-1976), historian
• Paul Bencheaux (1908-2001) French historian and writer
• Abdelkarim Dali (1914-1978) musician and Al-Hawzi singer
• Mohamed Dib (1920-2003) is a French-speaking Algerian writer.
• Ben Auda Ben Zarjab (1921-1956) doctor, one of the martyrs of the Algerian revolution
• Yells Bashir (1921--) painter
• Charles Touati (1925-2003) great French rabbi and philosopher
• Mesli Shukri (1931--) painter
• Jean-Pierre Ledoux (1947--) Algerian director
• Wasini Laraj (1954) Algerian writer
• Nouri al-Kufi (1954) is a hawzi singer and has several books on this art.
• Patrick Brial (1959--) is a well-known French actor and singer.
• Colonel Lotfi, was a prominent leader of the Algerian liberation revolution.
• Sharif Burkan Mohammed Atta Allah Maghnawi.
• Bagli Abu Bakr world silver chess titles.
• Abu Bakr Belkaid is a political and administrative figure.
• Muhammad bin Yusuf Al-Senussi is a religious personality
• Abdelhak Alchiali is an international assistant soccer referee.
• Abelian mathematician.