Djinet

Djinet was a Phoenician and Carthaginian colony under the name Kissi or Kishi ({{langx|xpu|𐤊{{popdf}}𐤔{{popdf}}}}, {{sc|kš}}, if Lipiński's interpretation of an inscriptionKAI 170:

After the Punic Wars, it fell under Roman control. Its name was Latinized as Cissi and it was placed into the province of Mauretania Caesariensis. It appeared on the Tabula Peutingeriana.J. Ferron, v. Cissi, in [https://archive.org/stream/dictionnairedhis12baud#page/436/mode/2up Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques], vol. XII, Parigi 1953, coll. 851-852 The ruins of a 4th or 5th-century Christian church could still be easily distinguished at Cape Djinet up to the 19th century, but little trace now remains.

After 484, it disappears from written sources for several centuries, including the 7th-8th century Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, only to reappear in the 11th century work of al-Idrisi under the new name of Jannād, after a Berber tribe then living in the area.J.-P. Laporte, "[https://journals.openedition.org/encyclopedieberbere/2303 Cissi]", Encyclopédie berbère It was known to medieval European geographers as Berengereto. By the 18th century, Djinet was a small port town serving the farmers of the surrounding lowlands, described by Thomas Shaw in the following terms:

: ...we come to the little port of Jinnett, from which a great quantity of grain is shipped off yearly to Christendom. Jinnett is a small creek, with tolerably good anchoring grounds before it; and was probably Edrisi's Mers' el Dajaje, or Port of Hens. I was told that Jinnett, or Paradise, was given to this place, on account of a row-boat, which was once very providentially conducted within the creek, when the mariners expected every moment to have perished upon the neighbouring rocks.Thomas Shaw, 3rd ed. 1808 (1st ed. 1738), [https://books.google.com/books?id=YKUDAAAAYAAJ&dq=jinnett+yisser&pg=PP110 Travels Or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant: Illustrated with Copperplates, Volume 1], p. 88

The area was conquered by France in 1837 in the wake of the First Battle of the Issers, and remained under French rule until Algeria's independence in 1962.

In 1986, a gas-powered thermal power plant was commissioned at Djinet, manufactured by Siemens with a capacity of 704 MW.{{cite web | url=https://www.infoelec.dz/article/siemens-algeria.html | title=Siemens Algeria | infoElec | date=18 October 2016 }}

Roman Cissi was a Christian bishopric, suffragan to the metropolitan of Carthage. The names of two of its bishops are known:

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• At a Conference of Carthage (411) between Catholic and schismatic Donatist bishops, where their heresy was condemned as such, Cissi was represented only by a Donatist bishop named Flavosus. The Latin adjective referring to Cissi, Cissitanus, is applied to him in the account of that conference. In the 19th century, Morcelli took the adjective Cessitanus to refer to Cissi, and supposed instead that the name of the Cissi bishop at the conference was Quodvultdeus, whom Ferron rather attributed to the see of Cissita, which was in Africa Proconsularis and presently in Tunisia (Sidi-Tabet?).
• In 484, Bishop Reparatus of Cissi was one of the Catholic bishops whom the Arian king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom summoned to Carthage and then exiled like most Catholic bishops.Stefano Antonio Morcelli, [https://books.google.com/books?id=dO4-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA138 Africa christiana], Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 138

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as the Catholic titular bishopric of Cissi ({{langx|la|dioecesis Cissitana}}).Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 {{ISBN|978-88-209-9070-1}}), p. 871 Its bishops have been:

• Jean de Capistran Aimé Cayer, OFM (1949.06.17 – 1978.04.13)
• Augusto Vargas Alzamora, SJ (1978.06.08 – 1989.12.30)
• Olindo Natale Spagnolo Martellozzo, MCCJ (1990.02.02 – 2008.07.23)
• Enrique Eguía Seguí (2008.09.04 to present), Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Buenos Aires

Djinet is connected to the rest of the country through a single main road: RN 24, a coastal road leading to Algiers in the west (via Zemmouri) and Bejaia in the east (via Dellys).{{Cite web |url=http://www.mtp.gov.dz/fr/permalink/3276.html |title=Atlas Routier de l'Algérie : Wilaya de Boumerdès |access-date=2019-01-03 |archive-date=2019-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190315161402/http://www.mtp.gov.dz/fr/permalink/3276.html |url-status=dead }}

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• {{citation |first=J. |last=Ferron |contribution=Cissi |title=Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie Ecclésiastiques |volume={{nbsp}}XII |location=Paris |date=1953 |at=col. 851-852 }}.
• {{citation |last=Lipiński |first=Edward |author-link=Edward Lipinski (orientalist) |title=Itineraria Phoenicia |series=Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, No.{{nbsp}}127, Studia Phoenicia, Vol.{{nbsp}}XVIII |publisher=Uitgeverij Peeters |location=Leuven |date=2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLSzNfdcqfoC |isbn=9789042913448 }}.
• {{citation |first=Stefano Antonio |last=Morcelli |title=Africa Christiana |volume={{nbsp}}I |location=Brescia |date=1816 |page=138 }}.

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