Sites and monuments: Sites and monuments: the Roman theater (capacity 6000 places), the Roman exhibition, the Roman tanks (7 bins), the dolmens in Tamalous.

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Relief :

41% of mountains, 50% of hills and 9% of plains mediterannean climate

Pluviometrie 905 mm/year.

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Before being it is head Skikda of the Arabs, it was first the Rusicade of the Romans, that, descended from Cirta, created the city and made a prosperous locality of it.

In 428 (Gregorian time table), the vandals open his destruction before shaving it completely under the reign of their last king Gelimer.

April 10, 1838, the colonial troops of the general Slave ship discover Rusicade, site on which marshal Valée has a Strong constructed that he baptizes "Strong of France", that the king Louis Philippe 1st decides to sponsor while giving him its own name from where the appelation of Philippeville carried by Skikda of the time of the colonization.