Chefia

Cheffia is a town and commune in El Taref Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 7,450.[1]

Topographic map of the region around Cheffia
El Cheffia
الشافية
El Cheffia
Commune and town
Country Algeria
ProvinceEl Taref Province
Population
 (1998)
 • Total7,450
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)

The Cheffia valley was described in 1868 by Reboud [2] as being comprised between the eastern slope of the Bou Habet and a series of grassy knolls where a few gardens and clumps of azeroliers stand here and there. It is a valley which measures from north to south about fifteen kilometres and five kilometres wide. It is divided into two basins by the cultivated plateau of Sidi-Bou-Aoun, which has large stones. The Cheffia valley contains a number of ruins that can be considered as Libyan necropolises. Reboud describes a number thereof, and their Lybic insciptions, and published the map shown in this article.

Map showing sites where necropolises have been discovered around Cheffia

References
  1. Statoids
  2. Reboud (1870). Paris: Mémoires de la Société française de numismatique et d'archéologie. p. 113. Missing or empty |title= (help)


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