Oued Fodda Explained

Official Name:Oued Fodda
Native Name:وادى الفضة
Settlement Type:Commune and town
Pushpin Map:Algeria
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Pushpin Mapsize:300
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Algeria
Subdivision Name1:Chlef Province
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Oued Fodda
Unit Pref:Imperial
Population As Of:2008[1]
Population Total:41 710
Utc Offset:+1
Coordinates:36.1833°N 33°W
Elevation M:200-230
Postal Code:02100

Oued Fodda is a town and commune in Chlef Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 36,187.[2]

Description

Oued Fodda is one of the communes of the Chlef Province in Algeria, it is located 20 km east of the town of Chlef, and it was founded in 1883, at the confluence of Oued Fodda and Oued Chelif rivers. It is crossed by the national road 04, and the way of wilaya 132.

Historical note

During the Algerian War, the French armed forces based the Centre d'Entrainement et de Perfectionnement des Commandos de Chasse No.1 [3] here. It was a special operations school that trained the Commandos de Chasse.[4] It opened in July 1959 and closed in March, 1962.

Commandos de Chasse were company-sized security units of Algerian Harkis ["Volunteer Auxiliary Troops"] led by French officers and NCOs. Their job was to track and pin down FLN Katibas ["irregular units of Section or Company strength"] infiltrating from Tunisia and Morocco or operating in the bled ("high desert") so they could be attacked by larger conventional French Union forces.

Army units had the callsign Pagoda or Kimono and Gendarmerie units had the callsign Pirate or Partisan.

Notable locals

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wilaya de Chlef : répartition de la population résidente des ménages ordinaires et collectifs, selon la commune de résidence et la dispersion. FR. 2017-06-07. 2016-11-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20161130172608/http://www.ons.dz/collections/w02_p2.pdf. live. . Data from the 2008 General Population and Housing Census on the site of the NOS Algeria.
  2. Web site: Statoids . 2010-02-04 . 2017-07-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170718070731/http://www.statoids.com/ydz.html . live .
  3. French > "First Center for the Training and Development of Tracking Commandos"
  4. French > "Tracking Commandos"