Coordinates: 36°55′N 3°53′E / 36.917°N 3.883°E / 36.917; 3.883 Dellys (Arabic: دلّس‎) is a small coastal town in northern Algeria, almost due north of Tizi-Ouzou and just east of the river Sebaou. It is notable for an Ottoman-era casbah, two colonial-era lighthouses (marking Cape Bengut), and some beaches; the principal activities of the area are fishing and farming. It was a phoenician (punic) founding called Rusuccuru.^[1] In Roman times, it was called Rusuccurensis; in medieval times, Tedelles. In 1998 it had a population of 19,500 in the municipality.^[2]

Bombing [edit]

On September 8, 2007, at least 30 people were killed and 47 injured in a suicide car bomb attack on an Algerian naval barracks in the Dellys ^[3]

Demographics [edit]

Church of Rusuccuru [edit]

From 24 December 2007 polish bishop, Marek Mendyk, was nominated by Benedict XVI the titular bishop of Rusuccuru;^[4] present bishop Mendyk is suffragan bishop of Legnica Diocease.^[4]

References [edit]

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