[2] Bordj Menaïel was founded by the Ottoman government of Algeria, most likely in the 16th century, to guard a route between Algiers and Constantine and to secure control of the Isser plain.

[3] In the 18th century, its military role was superseded by the foundation of Bordj Sebaou further west, but it remained the residence of the Ottoman wakil administering the surrounding farmland.

[4] The French conquest reached the fort of Bordj Menaïel in 1844, when General Bugeaud took it.

It was enlarged through land expropriation in 1872 by Admiral de Gueydon, in the wake of the Mokrani Revolt.

[6] The road RN 12 runs through Bordj Menaïel, linking it with Isser to the west and Naciria to the east.