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Skikda is a city in north eastern Algeria
Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country of the Mediterranean sea, second largest in the Arab World, and the second largest on the African continent and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area....
 and a port on the Gulf of Stora, the ancient Sinus Numidicus. It was known as Philippeville until the end of the Algerian War of Independence
Algerian War of Independence

The Algerian War , also known as Algerian War of Independence, led to Algeria's independence from France. An important decolonization war, it was a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare, maquis fighting, terrorism against civilians, use of torture on both sides and counter-terrorism operations by the French Army....
 in 1962. It is the capital of Skikda Province
Skikda Province

Skikida is a province of Algeria, on its eastern Mediterannean Sea coastline....
 and Skikda District
Skikda District

'Skikda' is a districts of Algeria in Skikda Province provinces of Algeria, Algeria. It was named after its capital, Skikda. The current district chef is Mrs....
.

modern city of Skikda was founded in 1838 by the French on the ruins of an ancient Phoenicia
Phoenicia

Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal regions of modern day Lebanon, extending to parts of Israel, Syria and the Palestinian territories....
n city which later flourished as a large Roman
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 city called Rusicade, a Punic
Punic

The Punics, were a group of western Semitic-speaking peoples originating from Carthage in North Africa who traced their origins to a group of Phoenician and Cypriot settlers, but also to North African Berbers....
 word which means "Promontory of fire".






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Skikda is a city in north eastern Algeria
Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country of the Mediterranean sea, second largest in the Arab World, and the second largest on the African continent and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area....
 and a port on the Gulf of Stora, the ancient Sinus Numidicus. It was known as Philippeville until the end of the Algerian War of Independence
Algerian War of Independence

The Algerian War , also known as Algerian War of Independence, led to Algeria's independence from France. An important decolonization war, it was a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare, maquis fighting, terrorism against civilians, use of torture on both sides and counter-terrorism operations by the French Army....
 in 1962. It is the capital of Skikda Province
Skikda Province

Skikida is a province of Algeria, on its eastern Mediterannean Sea coastline....
 and Skikda District
Skikda District

'Skikda' is a districts of Algeria in Skikda Province provinces of Algeria, Algeria. It was named after its capital, Skikda. The current district chef is Mrs....
.

History

The modern city of Skikda was founded in 1838 by the French on the ruins of an ancient Phoenicia
Phoenicia

Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal regions of modern day Lebanon, extending to parts of Israel, Syria and the Palestinian territories....
n city which later flourished as a large Roman
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 city called Rusicade, a Punic
Punic

The Punics, were a group of western Semitic-speaking peoples originating from Carthage in North Africa who traced their origins to a group of Phoenician and Cypriot settlers, but also to North African Berbers....
 word which means "Promontory of fire". In the 5th century, the Roman port was destroyed by the Vandals
Vandals

The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe that entered the late Roman Empire during the 5th century. The Goths Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths and regent of the Visigoths, was allied by marriage with the Vandals as well as with the Burgundians and the Franks under Clovis I....
.

On October 10, 1883, there was an earthquake at Philippeville
Philippeville

Philippeville is a Wallonia Municipalities in Belgium located in Belgium in the Provinces of Belgium of Namur . The Philippeville municipality includes the old Municipalities in Belgium of Fagnolle, Franchimont, Jamagne, Jamiolle, Merlemont, Neuville, Belgium, Omez?e, Roly, Belgium, Romedenne, Samart, Sart-en-Fagne, Sautour, Surice, Villers-...
.

Towards the end of World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, there was a UNRRA refugee camp at Philippeville
Philippeville

Philippeville is a Wallonia Municipalities in Belgium located in Belgium in the Provinces of Belgium of Namur . The Philippeville municipality includes the old Municipalities in Belgium of Fagnolle, Franchimont, Jamagne, Jamiolle, Merlemont, Neuville, Belgium, Omez?e, Roly, Belgium, Romedenne, Samart, Sart-en-Fagne, Sautour, Surice, Villers-...
 which was known as Camp Jeanne d'Arc. On January 25, 1945, 200 Jews holding citizenship from countries in North and South America
South America

South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
 were sent from the Bergen-Belsen
Bergen-Belsen

Bergen-Belsen may refer to:* Stalag XI-C Bergen-Belsen , prisoner-of-war camp* Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , on the site of the POW camp....
 concentration camp to Switzerland as part of a prisoner exchange group. They were later sent to this UNRRA camp in Philippeville, Algeria ().

An armed uprising in 1955 during the war of Independence left around 123 people dead, mainly French and those suspected of collaboration. Reprisals by French forces may have killed more than 40,000 Algerians, though French sources put the number at 1,200.

Modern Skikda


The city had a population of 152,355 in 1998 (census figures). Natural gas
Natural gas

Natural gas is a gas consisting primarily of methane. It is found associated with fossil fuels, in coal beds, as methane clathrates, and is created by methanogenic organisms in marshes, bogs, and landfills....
, oil refining, and petrochemical
Petrochemical

Petrochemicals are chemical products made from raw materials of petroleum or other hydrocarbon origin. Although some of the chemical compounds that originate from petroleum may also be derived from coal and natural gas, petroleum is the major source....
 industries were developed in the 1970s and pipelines have been built for their transportation. The city hall (a neo-moorish style palace) and the railroad station were designed by Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier

Charles-?douard Jeanneret-Gris, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and also Painting, who is famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called Modern architecture or the International Style....
.

The official city flag colours are blue and white, the colours of the Mediterranean. The current zip code is 21000. Skikda has the third largest commercial port in Algeria after Algiers
Algiers

Algiers Nicknamed El-Bahdja or Alger la Blanche for the glistening white of its buildings as seen rising up from the sea, Algiers is situated on the west side of a bay of the Mediterranean Sea....
 and Oran
Oran

Oran is a city on the Mediterranean Sea coast in northwestern Algeria. Oran marked the largest westernmost metropolitan area of the then Ottoman Empire....
. It has also a petrochemical terminal port and a smaller fishing port in Stora
Stórá

St?r? is a river which runs through the village of S?rv?gur in the Faroe Islands. The name St?r? translates to 'big river'.The river runs through the heart of the village separating the village in two parts....
, and there are many beaches along the natural Mediterranean coastline. ?here is also a closed airport near the petrochemical complex.

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