| Azeffoun | |
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| — Commune and town — | |
| Country | Algeria |
| Province | Tizi Ouzou Province |
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| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
Azeffoun is a town and commune in Tizi Ouzou Province in northern Algeria.[1] , located 64 km north-east of Tizi Ouzou.
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The area of the municipality of Azeffoun is 126.66 km2 and a population of 16,096 inhabitants (census of 1998) and 17 435 inhabitants in 2008.
Azeffoun is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on the north, the town of Aït Chafâa on the east, and the common Akerrou, Aghrib in the south and Iflissen in the west. The town is located 64 km north-east of Tizi Ouzou, and 83 km western of Bejaia.
In Roman times it was called Ruzasus and was a very strategic military base because of its location, bordered to the north by the Mediterranean Sea, in the south by mountains rising to 500 m
Built by the French settlers to the last third of the nineteenth century, the colonial city, called Port Gueydon overlooks the sea from a hill which descends from Mount Tamgout perpendicular. It derives its name from Admiral Gueydon.
The fishing port is the first infrastructure to see the day According the first settlers. The the common of Port-mixed Gueydon was among the largest in the Kabylie time of the French administration. Dozens of villages occupied its geographical area bounded on the southeast by Ighil Tafraout Jehma and Zekri and south-west by the villages and Abizar Timizart N'sidi Mansour. It is the interface between the two Kabylies