Old towers - El Oued, Hamraia,... Algeria

Recently have spotted three GE Photo locations (well positioned) around El Oued, I would like to know some more about.

One is a "no-title" photo and Google translation of the other too even did not get me closer... 

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anonym - Photo by Billal Amrani
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"Mary's Turn" (?) - Photo by Lakhdar Mansouri Bourkha
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"North Shock" (?) - Photo by: Mohamed 39[/slide]

Old Towers - Algeria.kmz (1.19 KB)

Any infos about what are these and how old?

Nice find. Spent like 45 min looking for a trace, but nothing.

- other map overlays

- historical maps (American, Russian, French), as it looks like an older structure

- google books and google scholar on anything historically relevant in the area or touristic

nothing.

Well, maybe someone else knows

Same experiences here. Thanks for the try and your comments siggi!

Easy solution could be obtained by get in contact with photographers, but it can wait a while...

Rather interesting anyhow that these are missing from topo-maps. Probably too small objects to be signed on non-thematic maps?

But what about these giants then?
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I found the photographer of the tower "Bilah Amrani" and sent him a message on Facebook.
He lives in Algeria, I asked him to join this community on this thread to give answer to your question.

Well, let's see then...! And if your recruitment attempt succeeds, then probably I will have ONE or TWO further spottings for hím to solve... (;

Apr 10, 2020 22:49:16 GMT syzygy said:

Same experiences here. Thanks for the try and your comments siggi !

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I found this one labelled "stile et Maggar"   at a town nearby.


stile et magger.kmz (701 B)

May 9, 2020 16:35:50 GMT leong said:

...I found this one labelled "stile et Maggar"   at a town nearby.

Yeah, that is it! GE Photo 1,45 kilometers NW of your mark with the untranslateable label ... at least I could not extract a usable search word from it for the first try...


Hamaria, entre Stile et Maggar
GE Photo by Tarek Boudjedri

But the photo right next to your placemark by some 'Anis new' and it's label: البيبان in arabic is a clue! The word has many google-translations, but four of those refers to "door" or "entrance" meanings.

Probably these are some kind of border posts between two settlements or "gates" of the towns these are next to...(?)


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Anyhow - thanks for this great addition Léon!