Djurdjura

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Djurdjura is a mountain range situated in Kabylia (Algeria) within the Djurdjura National Park. Famous mediaevil explorer Ibn Batuta went to Béjaïa through this mountain range. Actually he was heading towards Tunis with a caravan on his jorney for Hajj. He went to Béjaïa from Mitidja, a plain land near Algiers ^[1]

The Zouaves of the French Army were first raised in Algeria in 1831 with one and later two battalions, initially recruited solely from the Zouaoua, a tribe of Berbers finding homes in the mountains of the Jurjura range (see Kabyles).

Lalla Fatma N'Soumer was among the last to surrender, retreating to a village hidden by the hardest peaks of Djurdjura, Takhlijt n At Aadsou, near Tirourda hill.

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1. ^ Ibn Batuta Travels in Asia and Africa English translated and selected by H. A. R. Gibb

Coordinates: 36°27′N 4°14′E / 36.45, 4.233