Mila
Mila is a city in the Northeast of Algeria. It is a real natural beauty with its mountains, greenery and above all its various water resources. It is named: water capital. It has the largest dam in Algeria: Beni Haroune.
The modern name of the city is derived from its latin name given in antiquity: Milevum or Mireon in Ancient Greek. It was situated in the Roman province of Numidia.
In the 6th century the Byzantine Emperor Justinian had Milevum enclosed by a fortified wall which still stands and forms a rampart for the Muslim city of Mila.
Two church councils were held at Milevum, one in 402 and the other in 416. The second appealed to Pope Innocent I for repression of the Pelagian heresy. Among the bishops of this episcopal see were Pollianus, present at the Council of Carthage in 255 and martyred two years later; St. Optatus, noted for his work against the Donatists who died in about 385, and who is commemorated on 4 June; Honorius; Severus, fellow-countryman and friend of St. Augustine Benenanus (484); Restitutus who attended the Fifth OEcumenical Council in 553.
Between 675 and 682 the city has been conquered by the Umayyad Arabs commanded by Abu al-Muhajir Dinar. In multiple book mentioned precisely City Mila conquered by Abu Muhajer General Umayyad Dinar in 675 AD in it, says in "The Berbers: study on the conquest of Africa by the Arabs, according to the printed Arabic texts. "Volume 1 by Henri Fournel. The Mosque Sidi Ghanem of Mila was built around 675 by Abu Muhajer Dinar. In the tenth century AH, historian and geographer Abu Ubayd-Allah Abd Al-Bakri quoted the mosque of Sidi Ghanem as "the first Mila mosque adjoining Dar El Imara" (House of Command).
In the 11th-century al-Bakri describes Mila's population consisting of Arabs, people from the millice and males mixed (Arabic, Roman and Berber).
In the 19th century it was the largest colony Koulouglis of the East-Algeria (Constatinnois) (mix of Turk with Arab or Berber).
Finally, Mila was under French colonial rule a city in the department of Constantine in Algeria, with in the early 20th century 8000 inhabitants, 400 of whom are Europeans. That department later became Constantine Province after the independence of Algeria, of which Mila was dependent till the creation of Mila Province in 1984.
