- Fornaka
Fornaka is a location in
Algeria . Fornaka is located 27 km (17miles) fromMostaganem , the wilaya (province) capital, and 60 km (37 miles) fromOran , the country's second largest city. The city is located slightly west on theGreenwich meridian .History
In 1870, Fornaka became the settlement for the German-speaking refugees from
Alsace andLorraine . They were not the first who tried to start a new life in this fertile land.At the end of the XV century, the christian
Spain expelled millions of its non-christian citizens. Hundreds of theMoors came toStidia and Fornaka and implemented a new life at the image of their former life in the lost for everAndalus .During the two last decades, Fornaka is facing the problem of the
immigration of the youth to Spain,France ,Germany andNorth America .Name
According to Salim Ammar who was born in Fornaka and lived till the age of 33 years in Fornaka , this town was named according to the Amazigh(Berber legend) of the king Arzew and his two sons Fornak and Aghbal. The reference is the oral myths collected from the inhabitants of bethioua and published in the "Revue africaine" in 1911 by the " Societe Geographique Algerienne".
Through the description of the 300 years fighting against the Spanish military presence in the "Presidio " of Oran, the Arab Geographers named the actual Fornaka as'Fom Al Bah'r", literally the mouth of the sea.
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