Macta

Umugezi wa Macta uherereye muri Alijeriya.

Macta River ni umugezi muto ufite uburebure bungana n’ibilometero 4.8 (3 miles), ukisuka mu nyanja mu kigobe cya Gulf of Arzeu, ahagana nko ku bilometero 40 (25 miles) mu burengerazuba bw’aho Chelif River isohokera mu nyanja.

Umugezi wa Macta ukomoka ku migezi ibiri ari yo Habra River (ufite uburebure bwa 230 km) na Sig River (ufite uburebure bwa 210 km). Iyo migezi yombi ituruka mu misozi ya Amour Range, igatemba igana mu majyaruguru, ikahurira mu kibaya cy’ibishanga, aho ikora igishanga kinini, hanyuma Macta ikahava ikajya mu nyanja.

Ku rugamba rwa Battle of Macta rwabaye ku itariki ya 28 Kamena 1835, imiryango y’Abarabu bo muri Alijeriya yatsinze ingabo za gikoloni z’Abafaransa.

• Iyi ngingo ikoresha inyandiko yakuwe mu gitabo ubu kiri mu ruhame (public domain): Gibson, Walcot (1911). “Algeria”. Muri Chisholm, Hugh (umwanditsi mukuru). Encyclopædia Britannica. Umubumbe wa 1 (igitabo cya 11). Cambridge University Press. pp. 642–653.