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13-564: The province was created from parts of Alger (department) and El Asnam department in 1974. In 1984 Tipaza Province was carved out of its territory. It is made up of 10 districts and 25 municipalities . The districts are: The municipalities are: The villages of Blida Province are: This province has one of the few habitat areas in Algeria that supports a sub-population of the Barbary macaque , Macaca sylvanus . This article about

26-511: A French province, Algeria was departmentalised on 9 December 1848, thereby operating according to the same administrative structure as metropolitan France . Three civil zones ( départements ) replaced the three beyliks into which the Ottoman former rulers had divided the territory. The principal town of the central département, also called Alger , became the prefecture of the eponymous département . The two other Algerian departments were Oran in

39-582: A location in Blida Province is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Alger (department) 36°44′37.1″N 3°5′41.1″E  /  36.743639°N 3.094750°E  / 36.743639; 3.094750 The Department of Algiers ( French : département d'Alger , [depaʁtəmɑ̃ dalʒe] , Arabic : عمّالة الجزائر ) was a former French department in Algeria . The department of Alger existed between 1848 and 1974. Considered as

52-575: Is a notable example of its more rural communes. The department's most high-profile political representative has been Manuel Valls , who was Prime Minister of France from 31 March 2014 to 6 December 2016. Valls visited its main town, Évry, to deliver remarks following the Charlie Hebdo massacre of January 2015. The president of the Departmental Council is François Durovray , elected in 2015. Population development since 1876: An immigrant

65-467: Is the north-central part of Algeria today. Until 10 January 1957, when the Sahara regions received their own administrative structure, these territories were administered by the département of Alger. The 1954 census recorded the stated religious affiliations of the population. The majority in the département of Alger declared themselves to be Muslims . In the city of Alger itself, however, 296,041 or 46% of

78-423: The 645,479 people counted were declared to be non-Muslims. This placed Alger second only to the city of Oran in terms of the proportion of the population stating that they were non-Moslems. Non-Moslem appears to have been seen as a surrogate description for people of European origin, or for Algerian Jews. On 26 January 1956 population increases triggered the creation of three new stand-alone departments. These were

91-457: The department continued to exist until 1974 when it was split into Alger Province and Blida Province . Essonne Essonne ( French pronunciation: [ɛsɔn] ) is a department in the southern part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France . It is named after the river Essonne . In 2019, it had a population of 1,301,659, across 194 communes . Essonne

104-671: The department of Yvelines . Essonne belongs to the region of Île-de-France . It has borders with the departments of: All of northern Essonne department belongs to the Parisian agglomeration and is very urbanized. The south remains rural. The most populous commune is Évry-Courcouronnes , the prefecture. As of 2019, the 5 most populous communes are: In descending order, the other communes over 25,000 population are: Athis-Mons , Palaiseau , Vigneux-sur-Seine , Viry-Châtillon , Ris-Orangis , Yerres , Draveil , Grigny , Brétigny-sur-Orge , Étampes , Brunoy and Les Ulis . Milly-la-Forêt

117-467: The département of Médéa , along with the coastal départements of Orléansville and Tizi-Ouzou formed respectively from the southern, western and eastern portions of the département of Alger. The very much truncated département of Alger now covered just 3,393 km , and was home to a population of 1,079,806. It was subdivided into the two sub-prefectures of Blida and Maison-Blanche (modern Dar El Beïda ). The 1957 departmental reorganisation

130-451: The west and Constantine in the east. The département of Alger covered an area of 54,861 km (21,182 sq mi), and comprised six sub-prefectures : these were Aumale , Blida , Médéa , Miliana , Orléansville and Tizi-Ouzou . It was not until the 1950s that the Sahara was annexed into departmentalised Algeria, which explains why the département of Alger was limited to what

143-474: The word "hypermarché" was first used only in 1966). Based on the ideas put forward by the American logistics pioneer Bernardo Trujillo , the centre offered on a single 2,500 m (26,909.78 sq ft) site a hitherto unknown combination of wide choice and low prices, supported by 400 car parking spaces. In 1969, the communes of Châteaufort and Toussus-le-Noble were separated from Essonne and added to

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156-467: Was formed on 1 January 1968, when Seine-et-Oise was split into smaller departments. Its prefecture is Évry-Courcouronnes . Its INSEE and postcode number is 91. The Essonne department was created on 1 January 1968, from the southern portion of the former department of Seine-et-Oise . In June 1963, Carrefour S.A. opened the first hypermarket in the Paris region at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (although

169-429: Was marked by a change in the "suffix" number appearing on automobile license plates and in other places that used the same code. Until 1957 Alger was department number "91": after 1957 the much diminished département of Alger became department number "9A". (In 1968, under a law enacted in 1964, the number "91" would be reallocated to Essonne , a new département comprising the southern suburbs of Paris.) After independence

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