Hadjout

Hadjout formerly Marengo during French colonization is a town and commune in Tipaza Province in northern Algeria, approximately 78km to the west of the capital Algiers.

Marengo was founded on September 17, 1848; the plan of the village was signed by the captain of the genius Victor de Malglaive on December 29, 1849.

By decree of February 11, 1851 that Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, French, Signa, this village of colonists was given the name of Marengo, to honor the dedication of Colonel Gaspard, Joseph, Marie Caponne (1787-1862) who participated in the Napoleonic and Algerian conquests.

A daily market with an area of 11500 m 2 attracts the clientele of the surrounding wilayas, it stands at the western exit of the city.

The city, still called by its French name Marengo, is featured in the beginning of Albert Camus's 1942 novel The Stranger as the place visited by Meursault, the protagonist, to mourn the death of his mother.

In 1927 the watering trough and the semicircular basin which occupied the crossroads of the two main roads disappeared and were replaced by the Monument to the Dead of the War of 1914–1918, which marked the town center of Marengo Hadjout.
Stade 5 Juillet 1962 in Hadjout