Official Name: | Tadjena |
Settlement Type: | Commune and town |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Algeria |
Subdivision Name1: | Chlef Province |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Abou El Hassan |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Tadjena (Arabic: تدجنة) (formerly Fromentin) is a town in the Dahra mountains in Chlef Province in central Algeria, with a population of about 23,000; its altitude is 438 m.
The settlement of Tadjena was originally named after Eugene Fromentin, a French painter and poet who spent a lot of time in Algeria. The Tadjena massacre in 1997 occurred in two villages nearby.