Tlemgen was founded. Yet little more than a generation
had passed, when in 1333 it was destroyed once
more by A li V. (Abu’l Hasan) on his way to Tlemgen,
and in 1336 its walls were razed entirely. Thus whoever
was victor it suffered, sometimes being under Tlemgen,
sometimes under Fez. On the death of Yazeed, in 1792,
the Algerian Turks appropriated it, but abandoned it a
few years later on the approach of a Moorish army.
Sixteen miles to the north-west are traces of Roman
entrenchments, known from a mile-stone to have been
the camp of Numerus Severianus. *
* An interesting little brochure recounting a single visit with a few
historical details, a plan and views, was published at Oran in 1886 by
J. Canal.
