Tazmalt

Tazmalt is a small town in the province of Bejaia, 80 kilometers southwest of the city of Bejaia in the region of Kabylia.

The population of the city is estimated at Tazmalt 30,000 (2008 census) inhabitants, it is the 5th largest city (by population) of Kabylia.

Despite the advantageous geographical position Tazmalt (city of the province of Bejaia nearest Algiers), the industry is very underdeveloped. Agriculture plays a very important part of the economy Tazmalt based mainly on olive growing. According to statistics the olive oil Tazmalt is reputed to be the best of Algeria. Besides, the word means Tazmalt Kabyle olives to large fruits.

Many people from the region Tazmalt unaware of an archaeological site not far from their doors around Tazmalt. If you wonder about Thavlast he will reply that this is the name of the farm belonging to the family Hamimi Arezki.

This name is derived from the Roman "Tablastensis" which means "barracks." The French archaeologist Jean Pierre Laporte sees it differently. Note that the latter worked for the National Archeology Agency in Tizi Ouzou from 1969 to 1971 continues, however, and this for about thirty years, studying the region (province of Tizi Ouzou Valley Soummam, and the plain of Hamza).

According to this archaeologist, Thavlast is not the location of Roman barracks but a small Berber-Roman city, which according to him is more interesting. In writing that he sent the young farmer Hamimi Moncef, who has put his farm activities on the net, he will say "all vestiges that you can find and put as much as possible be protected from particularly interesting because the site has never been studied by archaeologists to my knowledge. Myself, I don 'have spent two or three hours in 1971.

Too short a time also to find anything. "Note that Jean Pierre Laporte also worked on antique candle Saldae. He has published several articles including one on Aqueduct Toudja in the wilaya of Bejaia. According to some references, Thavlast are Roman ruins on a nearby hill farm near Battle of two sources. They are located on the left bank of the Oued Sahel in front of the old Bordj of Tazmalt.

One of the two sources door "Ksar el Thala" (Fountain of the Palace). A citizen will talk about the existence of stones bearing scriptures of signs, small tiles and other pottery discovered during the digging of a well, there is some of that time, but have since disappeared.

Tavlast is a virgin archaeological site. To our authorities to launch an appeal to our archaeologists and other anthropologists to come exhume the past of a region.