تيارت (Tīāret)
تيارت (Tīāret or Tiaret) is a city that guards a pass in the Tell Atlas Mountains of northern الجزائر (al-Jazā'īr).1 As of 2008 it had a population of 179 thousand.2 It was the capital of the Rusamid Imamate3 in the 8th and 9th century but diminished in status by the middle of the tenth.
| Name | Year | Population | Political entity |
| تيارت4 (Tīāret) | 800 CE | 5 | Rustamid Imamate3 |
External references
some buildings in Tīāret, al-Jazā'īr
Historical maps
Footnotes
1. Algérie in French; Algeria in English.
2. Side banner of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiaret, accessed May 17, 2017.
3. I'm unsure of the correct name for the polity.
4. I presumed the rulers used 'Arabic script to refer to the city, although they were a Berber dynasty.
5. Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987), "Cities of Africa" table, "Maghreb" subtable. In 800 it was the largest city in what is now الجزائر (al-Jazā'īr); at that time its population was less than 40,000 as it does not appear in Chandler's "Tables of the World's Largest Cities." It was larger than Meknes, which was larger than Sijilmesssa, which had 24,000 residents.
