Algeria
NW Algeria
Tlemcen Province

Tlemcen

Tlemcen is the second-largest city in northwestern after and is the capital of . The city has developed leather, carpet, and textile industries, which it exports through the port of .
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  • Type: City with 140,000 residents
  • Description: city in Algeria
  • Also known as: “Tilimsen”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sidi Belahcen Mosque and El Mechouar Palace.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The , also known as Sidi Bel Hasan Mosque or Sidi Abu al-Hasan Mosque is a former in the city of Tlemcen, . The former mosque is located in the southwest of the square, next to the Great Mosque of Tlemcen.

Castle
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Mechouar Palace or the Zianide Royal Palace is the former official residence of the Zayyanid dynasty in the city of Tlemcen, . The palace is situated in the middle of the city, and used to be part of the greater Mechouar Citadel of which the historic defensive walls are the only major element preserved.

Museum
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is a museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mansoûra.

Town
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Mansourah is a town and commune in in Northwestern . The town is the seat of Mansourah District.

Tlemcen

Latitude
34.8818° or 34° 52′ 54″ north
Longitude
-1.3167° or 1° 19′ 0″ west
Population
140,000
Elevation
811 metres (2,661 feet)
IATA airport code
TLM
United Nations Location Code
DZ TLM
Open location code
8C6WVMJM+P8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3110093634
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2475687
Wiki­data ID
Q185134
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In Other Languages

From Algerian Arabic to Zulu—“Tlemcen” goes by many names.
  • Algerian Arabic: “تلمسان”
  • Arabic: “أغادير (تلمسان)”
  • Arabic: “أقادير”
  • Arabic: “تلمسان”
  • Aragonese: “Termicén”
  • Aragonese: “Termizén”
  • Armenian: “Տլեմսեն”
  • Asturian: “Tlemcen”
  • Basque: “Tilimsen”
  • Belarusian: “Тлемсен”
  • Belarusian: “Тлемсэн”
  • Bengali: “তেমচেন”
  • Catalan: “Banu Sulayman”
  • Catalan: “Emirat idrissida de Tlemcen”
  • Catalan: “Emirat ifranita de Fakkan”
  • Catalan: “Idríssides de Tlemcen”
  • Catalan: “Imamat de Tlemcen”
  • Catalan: “Imamat ifranita de Tlemcen”
  • Catalan: “Tala Imsan”
  • Catalan: “Tedelis”
  • Catalan: “Tilimsān”
  • Catalan: “Tilimsen”
  • Catalan: “Tlemcen”
  • Catalan: “Tlemsan”
  • Catalan: “Tremissèn”
  • Cebuano: “Tlemcen”
  • Central Kurdish: “تلێمسێن”
  • Chinese: “Tlemcen”
  • Chinese: “特莱姆森”
  • Chinese: “特萊姆森”
  • Chinese: “特雷姆森”
  • Croatian: “Tlemcen”
  • Czech: “Tilimsán”
  • Danish: “Tlemcen”
  • Dutch: “Tlemcen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تلمسان”
  • Esperanto: “Tlemecen”
  • Finnish: “Tlemcen”
  • French: “Agadir (Algérie)”
  • French: “Tlemcen”
  • French: “Tremecen”
  • German: “Tilimsan”
  • German: “Tlemcen”
  • Greek: “Τλεμσέν”
  • Greek: “Τλέμσεν”
  • Gujarati: “ટલેમ્કેન”
  • Hausa: “Tlemcen”
  • Hebrew: “תלם סן”
  • Hebrew: “תלמסאן”
  • Hindi: “टलेमसन”
  • Hungarian: “Tlemcen”
  • Indonesian: “Tilimsan”
  • Indonesian: “Tlemcen”
  • Irish: “Tlemcen”
  • Italian: “Tlemcen”
  • Japanese: “トゥレムセン”
  • Japanese: “トレムセン”
  • Kabyle: “Tlemsan”
  • Kannada: “ಟ್ಲೆಮ್ಸೆನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Tlemsen qalası”
  • Kazakh: “Тлемсен қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Тлемсен”
  • Kazakh: “تلەمسەن قالاسى”
  • Korean: “틀렘센”
  • Kurdish: “Tlemcen”
  • Kurdish: “Tlemsan”
  • Latin: “Pomaria”
  • Latvian: “Tlemsena”
  • Lithuanian: “Pomaria”
  • Lithuanian: “Tilimsan”
  • Lithuanian: “Tilimsanas”
  • Lithuanian: “Tlemcen”
  • Lithuanian: “Tlemsenas”
  • Macedonian: “Тлемсен”
  • Malay: “Tlemcen”
  • Maltese: “Tlemcen”
  • Marathi: “टलेमसन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tlemcen”
  • Moksha: “Тлэмсэн”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tlemcen”
  • Norwegian: “Tlemcen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tlemcen”
  • Ossetian: “Тлемсен (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Тлемсен”
  • Persian: “تلمسان”
  • Polish: “Tilimsan”
  • Polish: “Tlemcen”
  • Portuguese: “Tlemcen”
  • Portuguese: “Tremecém”
  • Romanian: “Tlemcen”
  • Russian: “Тлемсен”
  • Scots: “Tlemcen”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tlemcen”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tlemsen”
  • Shona: “Tlemcen”
  • Sinhala: “ට්ලෙම්සෙන්”
  • Slovenian: “Tilismen”
  • Slovenian: “Tlemcen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تلمسان”
  • Spanish: “Reino de Tlemecen”
  • Spanish: “Reino de Tlemecén”
  • Spanish: “Reino de Tremecen”
  • Spanish: “Tilimsen”
  • Spanish: “Tlemcen”
  • Spanish: “Tlemcén”
  • Spanish: “Tlemecen”
  • Spanish: “Tlemsen”
  • Spanish: “Tremecen”
  • Spanish: “Tremecén”
  • Swahili: “Tlemcen”
  • Swahili: “Wilaya ya Tlemcen”
  • Swedish: “Tlemcen”
  • Tachelhit: “Tilmsan”
  • Tamil: “டிலேம்ஸன்”
  • Telugu: “ట్లెమ్ సెన్”
  • Thai: “Tlemcen”
  • Thai: “ตเลมเซน”
  • Thai: “ตแลมแซน”
  • Thai: “ติลิมซาน”
  • Turkish: “Tilimsan”
  • Turkish: “Tilimsen”
  • Turkish: “Tlemsen”
  • Ukrainian: “Тлемсен”
  • Urdu: “تلمسان”
  • Venetian: “Tlemcen”
  • Vietnamese: “Tlemcen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tlemcen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tlemoen”
  • Welsh: “Tlemcen”
  • Western Panjabi: “تلسمان”
  • Western Panjabi: “تلمسان”
  • Zulu: “Tlemcen”
  • “Tremecen”

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