Timiaouine
Sign in to saveTimiaouine (also called Timiaouine, Timéiaouine, Timéiawine) (, Amazigh: ⵜⵉⵎⵢⴰⵡⵉⵏ) is a town and commune in Bordj Badji Mokhtar District, Bordj Baji Mokhtar Province, in southwest Algeria near the border with Mali. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 4,493, up from 4,206 in 1998, with an annual growth rate of 0.7%, the lowest rate in the province.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Timiaouine
- Settlement.native_name
- ﺗﻴﻤﻴﺎوﻳﻦ
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town and commune
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Hotel de ville de Timiaouine.jpg
- Settlement.image_map
- Dz - Bordj Badji Mokhtar (wilaya d'Adrar) location map.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 200px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Timiaouine commune within the former Adrar Province
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Algeria
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Timiaouine within Algeria
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Algeria
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Bordj Badji Mokhtar
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Bordj Badji Mokhtar
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 12553
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Timiaouine (also called Timiaouine, Timéiaouine, Timéiawine) (, Amazigh: ⵜⵉⵎⵢⴰⵡⵉⵏ) is a town and commune in Bordj Badji Mokhtar District, Bordj Baji Mokhtar Province, in southwest Algeria near the border with Mali. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 4,493, up from 4,206 in 1998, with an annual growth rate of 0.7%, the lowest rate in the province.
== History == In 1904, France sent two columns to exploit the last major gap in the central Sahara, the Adrar des Ifoghas. One departs from Tamanrasset, to the north, under the command of General Laperrine, the other from Timbuktu, to the south, under the command of Lieutenant Théveniaud. They were found on the 1st of 1904 in the Timiau well.