Bibans

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Bibans
البيبان

View of the Bibans
Highest point
Peak Mansoura
Elevation 1,862 m (6,109 ft)
Coordinates 36°11′0″N 4°26′0″E / 36.18333°N 4.43333°E / 36.18333; 4.43333Coordinates: 36°11′0″N 4°26′0″E / 36.18333°N 4.43333°E / 36.18333; 4.43333
Geography
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Location Kabylie, Algeria
Parent range Tell Atlas

The Bibans or Biban Range (Arabic: البيبان‎, Kabylian: Tiggoura[1]) are a chain of mountains in northern Algeria, bordering the south of Kabylie. The highest summits are 1862 m high Mansoura (جبل منصورة) and 1832 m high Choukchout (جبل شوكشوط). The Bibans are a subrange of the Tell Atlas.[2]

The strategic Iron Gates mountain passes are located in the range and gave their name to the Biban Mountains.[3]

Some authors claim that the range was known as El Ouennougha before the French colonization of Algeria.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kabylie
  2. ↑ L'Atlas Tellien - Chapitre III (Géologie locale)
  3. ↑ Charles Nodier, Journal de l'Expédition des Portes de Fer
  4. ↑ Youssef Benoudjit, La Kalaa des Béni Abbès : au xvie siècle, Dahlab, 1997, ISBN 9961611322

External links

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Dahra is a low mountainous range part of the greater Tell Atlas located in Algeria and which goes from Algiers at the east throughout the coasts untill Mostaganem at the west.


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