Tlemcen

Tlemcen is a town in north-western Algeria and the capital of the province of the same name. The city has advanced leather, carpet and textile industries, which it ships to the port of Rashgun for export. It had a populace of 140,158 at the 2008 census, at the same time as the province had 949,135 inhabitants. Tlemcen have become a army outpost of the Romans in the 2nd century CE under the name of Pomaria. It become then an essential metropolis inside the North Africa see of the Roman Catholic Church, in which it turned into the middle of a diocese.

Its bishop, Victor, become a outstanding representative on the Council of Carthage and its bishop Honoratus become exiled in 484 through the Vandal king Huneric for denying Arianism. It turned into a middle of a big Christian populace for plenty centuries after the town's Arab conquest in 708 AD. In the later 8th century and the ninth century, the city became a Kingdom of Banu Ifran of the Kharijite sufri. These identical Berber Kharijis additionally started out to develop diverse small Saharan oases and to hyperlink them into everyday trans-Saharan caravan routes terminating at Tlemcen beginning a technique that would decide Tlemcen's ancient role for nearly all of the subsequent millennium.