Bougara is a town in the Mitidja plain in Algeria, about 20 kilometers due south of Algiers. Algeria ( ar [[Arabic]] الجزائر, Al Jaza'ir ælʤæˈzæːʔir Amazigh: ⴷⵥⴰⵢⴻⵔ Dzayer) officially the People's Algiers (الجزائر Algerian Arabic: Dzayer ( (From kabyle pronunciation Kabyle: Ledzayer, Alger) is the Capital and largest Located on the N29, the main road between Blida and Larbaâ, it is the capital of Bougara District, in Blida Province. Blida ( البليدة) is a city in Algeria. It is the capital of Blida Province, and it is located about 45 km south-west of Algiers, Bougara is a district in Blida Province, Algeria. It was named after its capital Bougara. Blida (البليدة is a province in Algeria. Its capital is Blida.
Previously, under French rule, it was called Rovigo; it can be found with this name on this excerpt from the 1962 Michelin map of Algeria. The French name was chosen to honour the Duc de Rovigo who was commander-in-chief of the French army in Algeria from December 1831 to April 1833[1][2], when he was recalled due to the overtly violent nature of his repressive regime. Anne Jean Marie René Savary 1st Duc de Rovigo ( April 26, 1774 - June 1833 French general and Diplomat, was born at Post cards of the town under French rule can be seen here.
There are the saline thermal springs at Hammam-Mélouane, eight kilometes south-west of the town [3]. An old postcard showing the baths complex can be seen here.
British Army troops were billeted on French-owned farms outside Rovigo in the Autumn of 1943 [4]. In 1946, the Haganah, the pre-state Zionist military, had a training camp near Rovigo [5]. Haganah ( Hebrew: "The Defense" ההגנה was a Jewish Paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine
On June 4, 1957 Edouard Samson, president of the délégation spéciale or mayor of Rovigo, was arrested in the town by the DST for collusion with the FLN [6]. The Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST (Directorate of Territorial Surveillance was a directorate of the French National Police operating as a domestic The National Liberation Front ( Arabic: جبهة التحرير الوطني transliterated: Jabhat al-Taḩrīr al-Waţanī French: Front
Famous people who were born in Rovigo include two liberal pied noir writers, Jules Roy (born there in 1907[7][8]) and Jean Pélégri (born there in 1920[9]). Pied-Noir ("Black-Foot" plural Pieds-Noirs, pronounced /pje Jules Roy ( 22 October 1907 &ndash 15 June 2000) was a French writer Year 1907 ( MCMVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Jean Pélégri ( June 20 1920 – September 24 2003) was a writer and professor of literature Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar The grave of Roy's mother is at the village of Sidi Moussa, about eight kilometres north of Bougara, which is where Roy was reared, on his maternal grand-parents' farm.
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- ^ Alan Riding. "Jules Roy, Algerian-Born French Writer, Dies at 92", New York Times, 2000-06-21. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Events 524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce.
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