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Qal'at Bani Hammad
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fortified palatine city in Algeria
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Place details
- Locality
- Maadid ⵎⴰⵄⴷⵉⴷ المعاضيد
- Region
- المسيلة M'Sila ⵎⵙⵉⵍⴰ
- Country
- ⵍⵣⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ الجزائر
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Alternative name
- Beni Hammad Fort
- Location
- Maadid , M'Sila Province , Algeria
- Type
- Settlement
- Builder
- Hammad ibn Buluggin
- Founded
- 1007 CE
- Abandoned
- 1090 CE
- Periods
- Hammadid dynasty
- Condition
- In ruins
- Architectural styles
- Western Islamic
- Official name
- Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad
- Criteria
- iii
- Designated
- 1980 (4th session )
- Region
- Arab States
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- قلعة بني حماد
- Country
- Algeria
- Located in
- M'Sila Province
- Area
- 150
- Capital of
- Hammadid dynasty
- Image
- 28-2 Kalâa de Beni Hammad (3).jpg
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- Commons category
- Qal'at Bani Hammad
- inception
- 1007-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1090-00-00
- native label
- قلعة بني حماد
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Encyclopedic overview
Qal'at Bani Hammad (Arabic: قلعة بني حماد), also known as Qal'a Bani Hammad or Qal'at of the Beni Hammad (among other variants), is a fortified palatine city in Algeria. Now in ruins, in the 11th century, it served as the first capital of the Hammadid dynasty. It is in the Hodna Mountains northeast of M'Sila, at an elevation of 1,418 metres (4,652 ft), and receives abundant water from the surrounding mountains. The site is near the town of Maadid (aka Maadhid), about 225 kilometres (140 mi) southeast of Algiers, in the Maghreb.
In 1980, it was inscribed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO under the name Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad, and described as "an authentic picture of a fortified Muslim city".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qal'at Bani Hammad” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.