Cherchell
Cherchell is a town on Algeria's Mediterranean coast, 89 kilometers west of Algiers. It is the seat of Cherchell District in Tipaza Province. Under the names Iol and Caesarea, it was formerly a Roman colony and the capital of the kingdoms of Numidia and Mauretania.
- Type: Town with 48,100 residents
- Description: municipality of Algeria
- Also known as: “Caesarea”, “Caesarea in Mauretania”, “Cherche”, “Cherchell ⵛⴻⵔⵛⴻⵍ شرشال”, “Cherchez”, “Shershel”, and “Shershell”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Caesarea in Mauretania and Fort Joinville Lighthouse.
Caesarea in Mauretania
Ruins
Military Academy of Cherchell Defunct President Houari Boumediene
Military installation
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sidi Ghiles.
Sidi Ghiles
Town
Cherchell
- Categories: commune of Algeria and locality
- Location: Commune de Cherchell, Cherchell District, Tipaza Province, Algeria, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.6075° or 36° 36′ 27″ north
Longitude
2.1902° or 2° 11′ 25″ east
Population
48,100
Elevation
38 metres (125 feet)
IATA airport code
ZZC
United Nations Location Code
DZ CHE
Open location code
8F84J55R+23
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Vietnamese—“Cherchell” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Καισάρεια”
- Arabic: “شرشال”
- Armenian: “Շերշել”
- Asturian: “Cherchell”
- Azerbaijani: “Şərşal”
- Basque: “Cherchell”
- Belarusian: “Іол”
- Belarusian: “Цэзарэя Маўрэтанская”
- Belarusian: “Шаршал”
- Belarusian: “Шэршэль”
- Catalan: “Cherchel”
- Catalan: “Cherchell”
- Catalan: “Sersell”
- Catalan: “Sharshal”
- Chinese: “Cherchell”
- Chinese: “歇爾謝爾”
- Chinese: “約爾”
- Chinese: “約爾凱撒里亞”
- Chinese: “約爾該撒利亞”
- Chinese: “舍尔沙勒”
- Chinese: “舍爾沙勒”
- Chinese: “謝爾謝爾”
- Czech: “Cherchell”
- Danish: “Cherchell”
- Dutch: “Caesarea”
- Dutch: “Cherchel”
- Dutch: “Cherchell”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شرشال”
- Esperanto: “Ĉerĉelo”
- Finnish: “Caesarea”
- Finnish: “Cherchell”
- French: “Cherchell”
- French: “Wilaya de Cherchell”
- Georgian: “შერშელი”
- German: “Cherchell”
- Greek: “Σερσέλ”
- Hebrew: “שרשל”
- Hungarian: “Sersel”
- Indonesian: “Cherchell”
- Irish: “Cherchell”
- Italian: “Caesarea”
- Italian: “Cesarea in Mauretania”
- Italian: “Cesarea in Mauritania”
- Italian: “Cherchell”
- Italian: “Iol Caesarea”
- Italian: “Iol cesarea”
- Japanese: “カエサリア (マウレタニア)”
- Japanese: “シェルシェル”
- Japanese: “シャーシャル”
- Kabyle: “Cercal”
- Kongo: “Iol Caesarea”
- Latin: “Caesarea Iol”
- Latin: “Iol Caesarea”
- Malay: “Cherchell”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cherchell”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cherchell”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cherchell”
- Persian: “شرشال”
- Polish: “Cezarea Mauretańska”
- Polish: “Cherchell”
- Polish: “Iol”
- Polish: “Szarszal”
- Polish: “Szerszel”
- Portuguese: “Cherchell”
- Romanian: “Cherchell”
- Russian: “Кесария Мавретанская”
- Russian: “Кесария Мавританская”
- Russian: “Шаршал”
- Russian: “Шершель”
- Slovenian: “Cherchel”
- South Azerbaijani: “شرشال”
- Spanish: “Caesarea Mauretaniae”
- Spanish: “Cherchel”
- Spanish: “Cherchell”
- Swahili: “Cherchell”
- Swedish: “Cherchel”
- Swedish: “Cherchell”
- Swedish: “Iol”
- Turkish: “Şerşel”
- Ukrainian: “Іол”
- Ukrainian: “Цезарея Мавретанська”
- Ukrainian: “Шершель”
- Urdu: “شرشال”
- Vietnamese: “Cherchel”
- Vietnamese: “Cherchell”
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