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Tiaret (Arabic: تيارت) or Tahert (Arabic: تاهرت) is a major city in northwestern Algeria that gives its name to the wider farming region of Tiaret Province. Both the town and region lie south-west of the capital of Algiers in the western region of the Hautes Plaines, in the Tell Atlas, and about 150 km (93 mi) from the Mediterranean coast. It is served by Abdelhafid Boussouf Bou Chekif Airport.
The name means "Lioness" in the Berber language, a reference to the Barbary lions that lived in this region. Maghrebian place names like Oran (Wahran) which means "lion", and Souk Ahras which means "Market of Lions" have the same etymological source.[citation needed]
The town had a population of 178,915 in 2008. The town covered around 20.086.62 km2.
A 1992 study by the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis reported significant areas contaminated by industrial pollution, and growing squatter settlements on the periphery.
The region is predominantly one of agriculture. There is a large airfield with a tower and terminal at Abdelhafid Boussouf.
Tiaret has also been home to Ibn Khaldun University since 1980.
The Institute of National Studies of Tiaret holds 25,000 volumes in its library.
The province suffered massacres (the largest being the Sid El-Antri massacre in 1997), killings, and bombings during the Algerian Civil War, though less so than areas closer to Algiers. The Africa Institute reported in a May 2004 monograph that Tiaret's more "arid and mountainous landscape has facilitated terrorist activities". The MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base reports that Tiaret "is a frequent site of attacks by the Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC)" (now known as Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb). The GSPC was "believed to have close ties to Osama bin Laden" (Paris AFX News Agency, 13 July 2005)[full citation needed] and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (Asharq Al-Awsat 3 July 2005),[full citation needed] and is reported to be active in Italy (Deutsche Welle, 15 July 2005).[full citation needed]
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Tiaret
Tiaret (Arabic: تيارت) or Tahert (Arabic: تاهرت) is a major city in northwestern Algeria that gives its name to the wider farming region of Tiaret Province. Both the town and region lie south-west of the capital of Algiers in the western region of the Hautes Plaines, in the Tell Atlas, and about 150 km (93 mi) from the Mediterranean coast. It is served by Abdelhafid Boussouf Bou Chekif Airport.
The name means "Lioness" in the Berber language, a reference to the Barbary lions that lived in this region. Maghrebian place names like Oran (Wahran) which means "lion", and Souk Ahras which means "Market of Lions" have the same etymological source.[citation needed]
The town had a population of 178,915 in 2008. The town covered around 20.086.62 km2.
A 1992 study by the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis reported significant areas contaminated by industrial pollution, and growing squatter settlements on the periphery.
The region is predominantly one of agriculture. There is a large airfield with a tower and terminal at Abdelhafid Boussouf.
Tiaret has also been home to Ibn Khaldun University since 1980.
The Institute of National Studies of Tiaret holds 25,000 volumes in its library.
The province suffered massacres (the largest being the Sid El-Antri massacre in 1997), killings, and bombings during the Algerian Civil War, though less so than areas closer to Algiers. The Africa Institute reported in a May 2004 monograph that Tiaret's more "arid and mountainous landscape has facilitated terrorist activities". The MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base reports that Tiaret "is a frequent site of attacks by the Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC)" (now known as Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb). The GSPC was "believed to have close ties to Osama bin Laden" (Paris AFX News Agency, 13 July 2005)[full citation needed] and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (Asharq Al-Awsat 3 July 2005),[full citation needed] and is reported to be active in Italy (Deutsche Welle, 15 July 2005).[full citation needed]
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