Mostaganem

Mostaganem is a port city on the Mediterranean Sea in north-western Algeria, 365km from the capital, Algiers. The city is the capital of the province of the same name. At the last census in 2008 the city of Mostaganem accounted for 145,696 inhabitants.

The city was founded in the 11th century AD but the city has origins going back to Punic and Roman times. Mostaganem was occupied first by the Phoenicians, who gave his name Murustaga then the Romans who gave it the name Cartenna.

In 1511 the Spaniards imposed a treaty of capitulation to the city of Mostaganem. The population began a cry for help to the Ottoman Empire, which sent Admiral Barbarossa conquered the city in 1516 Mostaganem Devena a den of Corsair and was under the influence of the Ottoman Empire until the invasion French 1833.