Hadjout
Sign in to saveHadjout (; ), formerly Marengo during French colonization, is a town and commune in Tipaza Province in northern Algeria, approximately 78km to the west of the capital Algiers.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Hadjout
- Settlement.nickname
- Marengo
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Commune and town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Centre de la ville.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- The city center of Hadjout
- Settlement.image_map
- Dz - 42-12 - Hadjout - Wilaya de Tipaza map.svg
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Tipaza Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- M’hamed Gassaf
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.area_land_km2
- 52.3
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2008
- Settlement.population_total
- 65300
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
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Hadjout (; ), formerly Marengo during French colonization, is a town and commune in Tipaza Province in northern Algeria, approximately 78km to the west of the capital Algiers.
== History == thumb|250px|left|In 1927 the watering trough and the semicircular basin which occupied the crossroads of the two main roads disappeared and were replaced by the Monument to the Dead of the War of 1914–1918, which marked the town center of Marengo Hadjout. In 1848, the village was named Marengo. In 1958, the commune became part of the department of Alger. After Algerian independence, it was renamed Hadjout.