El Milia

El Milia is a town and commune in Jijel Province, Algeria.The town of El Milia is located in Algeria's north-eastern region Constantinois. It lies between the cities of Jijel, Mila and Constantine and Skikda. The Mediterranean Sea is about twenty kilometers north of the town. The territory of the municipality of El Milia is located northeast of the province of Jijel. It is the largest city area of the region.AdministrationThe municipality of El Milia is composed of one hundred and one localities, villages and hamlets.El Milia is the eponymous capital of El Milia District.PopulationAccording to the 2009 census it has a population of 80,000.The family name used to refer to the Arabic-speaking highlanders in the region of El Milia was Kabyle hadra. The ethnic origin of these is that the first inhabitants of the region were the Kutama. In the 11th century, following the overthrow of the Fatimid empire and fall of Kutamas, a settlement was founded by various Berber tribes (especially Sanhadja) who came from other cities and regions of Algeria in particular highland but also Morocco and moved to El Milia and its surroundings, they never mixed with Hilali Arab tribes, and later Muslims refugees from Andalusia expelled from Spain. There is also more recently a small Ottoman influx.