annaba

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formerly Bône Seaport (pop., 1998: 348,554), northeastern Algeria. Identified with the port of ancient Hippo (or Hippo Regius) to the south, it was a rich city of Roman Africa until AD 300. It was home to St. Augustine 396-430. Severely damaged by the Vandals in 431, it was rebuilt by the Arabs in the 7th century and named Bona. It was occupied by the French in 1832 when they took over the area. Modern Annaba is Algeria's chief exporter of minerals; it also serves as a trading port and port of call
a port city of northeastern Algeria near the Tunisian border