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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 390 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHILIPPEVILLE , a seaport of See also:

Algeria, See also:chief See also:town of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Constantine, and 54 M. N. by E. of that See also:city, on the See also:Bay of Stora, in 36° 53' N. 6° 54' E. It is connected by railway with Constantine, Batna and See also:Biskra. The town derives its importance from being the See also:port of Constantine. The See also:harbour See also:works, with every See also:vessel in port, having been destroyed by a See also:storm in 1878, a more commodious harbour was built, at a cost of about £r,2oo,000. From Cape Skikda, on the See also:east a See also:mole or See also:breakwater projects 4592 ft. to the W.N.W., while from See also:Chateau Vert on the See also:west another mole runs out 1312 ft. to the See also:north, leaving an entrance to the port about 656 ft. wide. The protected See also:area comprises an See also:outer and an inner See also:basin. The See also:depth of See also:water at the entrance is about 33 ft., along-See also:side the quays about 20 ft. The quays are faced with blocks of See also:white See also:marble brought from the quarries at Filfila, 16 m. distant. Pop. (1906), of the town 16,539, of the See also:commune 26,050, of the arrondissement, which includes 12 communes, 147,607.

Philippeville occupies the site of successive Phoenician and See also:

Roman cities. By the See also:Romans, under whom it attained a high See also:state of prosperity, it was named Rusicada. In the See also:middle ages the town ceased to be inhabited. The site was See also:purchased from the See also:Arabs by See also:Marshal Valee in 1838 for £6. Some parts of the Roman See also:theatre remain, but the stones of the See also:amphitheatre, which stood without the walls of the See also:modern town, and which the See also:French found in an almost perfect state of preservation, were used by them for See also:building purposes, and the railway was cut through the site. On a See also:hill above the town are the Roman reservoirs, which have been restored and still See also:supply the town with water. They are fed by a See also:canal from the See also:Wadi Beni Meleh. The Roman See also:baths, in the centre of the modern town, serve as cellars for military stores.

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