Chetaïbi

The commune of Chetaïbi is located about 62 km northwest of the wilayah of Annaba. Chetaïbi has a fishing port. The main beaches of Chetaïbi are Chétaibi, Les sables d'or, Oued Leghnem, Fountaine Romaine, La Baie Ouest and Sidi Akkacha.

The population of the town was 8035 in the 2008 census.[1] The postal code of Chetaïbi is 23014.

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  Village of Chetaïbi
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  Aerial view of Chetaïbi
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During the Roman Empire there was a Roman town called Tacuata and based on the remaining ruins, it was a relatively important city. In Roman times it was the starting point of a road to the west, marked by Muharur (Sidi Akkacha), Zacca (Cape de Fer), where red porphyry was mined and exported to Rome through the port on the Seybouse, then Culucitanis (El Marsa) and Paratienis (Guerbes).

With Muslim conquests of the Maghreb, the Arabs renamed the town "Tekkouch", from the Berber "Teccuche". Several places along the shore are associated with legends of the neighboring peoples. The local population considers the bay of Sidi Akacha "sacred". For about a decade it was frequented by armed terrorists because of its isolation and rugged forested terrain[2] The forest, extensive along this part of the coast, is greatly admired with very rigorous asceticism. A number of mausoleums host brilliant fantasia, as in Sidi Boufernana every year.

In 1830, during the siege of Annaba, a clandestine flotilla came every night from Tekouch to supply the inhabitants of the city with provisions. At that time, a historical event of great size was not lacking in certain interest and deserves a precision: since it is there, even in the Edough, where its maquis has preserved in the mountains the memory of the revolt of If Zeghdoud. From a family of scholars bearing the name of Oued Jemaoune, he was born in Souk el had (Ain oum elrakha today) against the occupier although dating from the first day gained in magnitude in June 1841 refugee to Sidi Akkacha.

At the end of the 19th century, Tekouch took the name of the French general Émile Herbillon. At the time when the ship Le Caramy transported passengers between Bône and Herbillon, the first doctors to practice there were Drs Bendjelloul and Monpére.

After Algerian independence the town was renamed Chetaïbi.[3]

The fishing region Chétaibi is also popular for game hunting. The beaches and sea have more attraction in Chétaibi than anywhere else. Even from the tourist point of view, it could be a village of certain future and may be, closer than we think. At the foot of the mountain are superb beaches bordering the shore and enchanting corners: the Roman fountain, Oued Ghnem, the western bay, Les Sables Dorés, Kef Omar (holy piastre island); . . .

The port of Chétaibi (e.g. Herbillion) which seems to slumber at the bottom of a small bay entrance of high mountains of marvelous granite, the most beautiful and the hardest to be seen. The quarries of Chétaibi were for a long time the economic center of the town, which seems to have had no other activity but fishing. Many large cities in France (Paris, Marseilles, etc.) and even elsewhere (Rome, the paving stones of which they have lined the streets of their streets).[4]

• (in French) Chetaïbi