Zemmouri

Zemmouri is a metropolis and commune within the Bordj Menaiel District of Boumerdes Province, Algeria. As of 2008, the population of the municipality is 26,408. The coastal web site of Zemmouri El-Bahri became a Phoenician and later Roman settlement named Rusubbicari. In the medieval period, it have become a small port named Marsa al Dajaj. Archeological studies there has uncovered medieval structures and pottery, as well as Roman coins.

By the nineteenth century the principle village, slightly similarly inland, changed into known as Zemmouri commonly spelled Zamouri or Zemouri on the time. In 1872 the French authorities set up a colonial settlement there using land confiscated from the Isser el-Ouidan tribe and from personal individuals inside the wake of the Mokrani Revolt4; in 1886 it become renamed Courbet, after Admiral Amedee Courbet. Following Algeria's independence in 1962, the call Zemmouri was restored. To the northwest of the town, the Sahel Forest and the coastal dunes on which it grows are ruled with the aid of Aleppo pine and different Mediterranean maquis vegetation, and represent a traveller enchantment.