Destination Algérie - Bienvenue à Timimoun, la capitale du Gourara
Pour arriver à Timimoun, il faut parcourir pas moins de 1200 km depuis la Capitale Alger, presque 15 heures de route via une voie transsaharienne. Timimoun est la capitale du Gourara, appelée aussi l'Oasis rouge en référence à ses constructions en ocre rouge inspirées de l'architecture néo-soudanaise. Le marché du centre-ville représente le lieu où convergent la plupart des habitants. L'ancien hôtel Transatlantique figure encore parmi les symboles de la ville. Il fut inauguré par la Duchesse de Luxembourg en 1926.
Plusieurs groupes humains ont occupé ses Oasis. La plupart sont des populations noires qui peuplaient le Sahara jusqu'à l'Atlas saharien et qui se sont progressivement retirées au sud en raison du processus de désertification.
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Tourisme en Algérie - Timimoun
Timimoun est l’une des villes les plus prisées dans le sud algérien par les touristes. Qu’ils viennent de l’intérieur du pays ou de l’extérieur, les visiteurs ne peuvent se passer du charme de la ville qui accueille de grands événements en décembre et janvier. Le tourisme est le véritable poumon économique de cette perle du désert, mais la ville peut-elle se contenter de vivre de cette activité annuellement ?
Rues désertes, hôtels fantômes. Seul l’adhan, qui résonne entre les murs de terre, rappelle que des vies humaines peuplent cette ville du Sahara algérien. Car l’été, Timimoun ressemble à un décor de cinéma mais sans son équipe de tournage. A partir de juin, ce sont le temps et la température qui apprivoisent les Timimouniens et pas l’inverse. Si c’est la première fois que vous visitez la ville, vous ne croirez jamais qu’elle est l’une des plus animées du sud algérien en janvier, tant elle est vide l’été. Il faut veiller à bien choisir sa saison pour visiter ce diamant du sud.
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Algeria has been inhabited by Berbers (or Imazighen) since at least 10,000 BC. After 1000 BC, the Carthaginians began establishing settlements along the coast. The Berbers seized the opportunity offered by the Punic Wars to become independent of Carthage, and Berber kingdoms began to emerge, most notably Numidia. In 200 BC, however, they were once again taken over, this time by the Roman Republic. When the Western Roman Empire collapsed, Berbers became independent again in many areas, while the Vandals took control over other parts, where they remained until expelled by the generals of the Byzantine Emperor, Justinian I. The Byzantine Empire then retained a precarious grip on the east of the country until the coming of the Arabs in the eighth century.
Having converted the Kutama of Kabylie to its cause, the Shia Fatimids overthrew the Rustamids, and conquered Egypt. They left Algeria and Tunisia to their Zirid vassals; when the latter rebelled and adopted Sunnism, the Shia Fatimids sent in the Banu Hilal, a populous Arab tribe, to weaken them. This initiated the Arabization of the region. The Almoravids and Almohads, Berber dynasties from the west founded by religious reformers, brought a period of relative peace and development; however, with the Almohads' collapse, Algeria became a battleground for their three successor states, the Algerian Zayyanids, Tunisian Hafsids, and Moroccan Marinids. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Spanish Empire started attacking and subsuming a few Algerian coastal settlements.
Algeria was brought into the Ottoman Empire by Khair ad-Din and his brother Aruj in 1517, and they established Algeria's modern boundaries in the north and made its coast a base for the Ottoman corsairs; their privateering peaked in Algiers in the 1600s. Piracy on American vessels in the Mediterranean resulted in the First (1801--1805) and Second Barbary War (1815) with the United States. The piracy acts forced people captured on the boats into slavery; alternatively when the pirates attacked coastal villages in southern and western Europe the inhabitants were forced into slavery.[4] Raids by Barbary pirates on Western Europe did not cease until 1816, when a Royal Navy raid, assisted by six Dutch vessels, destroyed the port of Algiers and its fleet of Barbary ships. Spanish occupation of Algerian ports at this time was a source of concern for the local inhabitants.
The head of state is the President of Algeria, who is elected to a five year term and is constitutionally limited to two terms. Algeria has suffrage for Islamic men at 30 years of age.[1] The President is the head of the Council of Ministers and of the High Security Council. He appoints the Prime Minister who is also the head of government. The Prime Minister appoints the Council of Ministers.
The Algerian parliament is bicameral, consisting of a lower chamber, the National People's Assembly (APN), with 380 members; and an upper chamber, the Council Of Nation, with 144 members. The APN is elected every five years.
Under the 1976 constitution (as modified 1979, and amended in 1988, 1989, and 1996) Algeria is a multi-party state. All parties must be approved by the Ministry of the Interior. To date, Algeria has had more than 40 legal political parties. According to the constitution, no political association may be formed if it is based on differences in religion, language, race, gender or region.Algeria is currently divided into 48 provinces (wilayas), 553 districts (daïras) and 1,541 municipalities (communes, baladiyahs). Each province, district, and municipality is named after its seat, which is mostly also the largest city.
According to the Algerian constitution, a province is a territorial collectivity enjoying some economic freedom. The People's Provincial Assembly is the political entity governing a province, which has a president, who is elected by the members of the assembly. They are in turn elected on universal suffrage every five years. The Wali (Prefect or governor) directs each province. This person is chosen by the Algerian President to handle the PPA's decisions.
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