Ayn Safra

Ain Sefra is a municipality in Naama Province, Algeria. It is the district seat of Ain Sefra District and it has a population of 34,962, which offers it eleven seats inside the PMA. Its postal code is 45200 and its municipal code is 4503. It is the second one most populated municipality inside the province after Mecheria. The Ksar of Ain-Sefra was erected across the yr 1586 by means of the children of Mohamed Ben-Chaïb dit Bou-Dekhil, customer saint of the city, after the acquisition of the land from neighborhood tribes against one thousand sheep, in line with the memories of oral subculture.

During the first French incursions in the center of the nineteenth century, the majority of "Chorfa" households left the ksar as refugees, in particular to Tlemcen and Fez. The current town dates again to the French colonial technology. Initially, in 1882, a strategic army garrison put up consequent to the rebellion of Sheikh Bouamama left their bastion of Figuig. French troops have alternatively hooked up a army submit at the web page of Aïn-Sefra, to govern "The Gateway to the Sahara". A railway reached Ain-Sefra as early as 1887, and it extended to Bechar and Kenadsa in 1906, each for economic and strategic reasons.