The wilaya of Ain Salah () is an Algerian wilaya created in 2019, previously, a delegated wilaya created in 2015. It is in the Algerian Sahara.
Geography The wilaya of Ain Salah is in the Algerian Sahara, its area 131,220 km².Badreddine Yousfi, "Saharan territories in Algeria. Governance, actors and territorial recomposition ", L’Année du Maghreb [Online], 16 | 2017, Online since July 5, 2017, connection on March 21, 2020. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/2951; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/anneemaghreb.2951
It is delimited by:
to the north by the El Menia Province and Ouargla Province; to the east by the Illizi Province; to the northwest by Timimoun Province; to the west by the wilaya of Adrar; and to the south by Tamanrasset Province.
History Ain Salah is rumoured to have been named after Salah Bey who led an expedition that led as far south into the region of Ain Salah after the people of Touat were late in paying taxes. The area was historically ruled by the Deylik of Algiers.
The wilaya of Ain Salah was created on November 26, 2019. Previously, it was a delegated wilaya, created on May 27, 2015, creating administrative districts in certain wilayas and fixing the specific rules related to them, as well as the list of municipalities that are attached to it. Before 2019, it was attached to the Tamanrasset Province.
Organization of the wilaya
During the administrative breakdown of 2015, the delegated wilaya of Ain Salah is made up of 2 districts and 3 communes.
List of walis DistrictCommuneArabicAin Ghar DistrictAin Gharعين غارAin Salah DistrictFoggaret Ezzaouiaفقارة الزوىAin Salahعين صالح
Demography According to the general census of population and housing of 2008, all the municipalities of the wilaya of In Salah had a total inhabitants 2008 Census of the Algerian population, wilaya of Ghardaïa, on the site of the ONS.
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