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18-536: The province was created from Constantine (department) in 1974. The province is divided into 13 districts ( daïras ), which are further divided into 38 communes or municipalities. This article about a location in Skikda Province is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Constantine (department) Constantine Department was a French département in Algeria during

36-568: A continued strong presence in the department, and still controls the city councils in cities such as Saint-Denis , Montreuil and La Courneuve . Until 2008, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne were the only departments where the Communist Party had a majority in the general councils but the 2008 cantonal elections saw the socialists become the strongest group at the Seine-Saint-Denis general council (while

54-451: Is Bobigny . In 2019, it had a population of 1,644,903 across 40 communes . In French, the learned but rarely used demonym for the inhabitants of Seine-Saint-Denis is Séquano-Dionysiens ; more common is Dionysiens . The department is surrounded by the departments of Hauts-de-Seine , Val-de-Marne , Paris , Val-d'Oise , and Seine-et-Marne . It is thus one of only five French departments surrounded entirely by other departments of

72-449: Is difficult to estimate accurately as French law prohibits the collection of ethnic data for census taking purposes. In 2018, the poverty rate was twice the national average at 28%, the unemployment rate was 3% above the national average, at 12.7%. In 2018, it was estimated that 8–20% of the population in the department were illegal immigrants. Population development since 1881: An education study confirmed falling levels of literacy in

90-539: The colonial period , which existed between 1848 and 1974. The area of the former department, centered on the city of Constantine , is also referred to as Constantinois ( Arabic : قسنطينة Qusanṭīnah ). Constantinois was part of the Roman province of Africa which also included areas to the east (what is today Tunisia and Tripolitania [western Libya ]). In the Middle Ages , it was part of Arab Ifriqiya which

108-456: The Communist Party gained a majority in Allier and lost it in 2015). A commune of Seine-Saint-Denis , Clichy-sous-Bois , was the scene of the death of two youths which sparked the nationwide riots of autumn 2005 . In October and November, 9,000 cars were burned and 3,000 rioters were arrested. In 2018, the department had the highest crime rate in metropolitan France. In 2017, the area

126-517: The French, who reinstated the bey as ruler of the region. He remained in this position until 1848, when the region became a part of the colony of Algiers and he was deposed. Considered a French province, Algeria was departmentalised on 9 December 1848. Three civil zones ( départements ) replaced the three beyliks into which the Ottoman former rulers had divided the territory. The principal town of

144-496: The area of Greater Paris (Grand Paris). [REDACTED] The most populous commune is Saint-Denis ; the prefecture Bobigny is the eleventh-most populous. As of 2019, there are 5 communes with more than 70,000 inhabitants: Seine-Saint-Denis is made up of three departmental arrondissements and 40 communes : [REDACTED] Arrondissement of Saint-Denis : Arrondissement of Bobigny : Arrondissement of Le Raincy : Seine-Saint-Denis

162-539: The area, where the percentage of pupils who had 25 errors or more increased from 5.4% in 1987 to 19.8% in 2015. An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants. The president of

180-629: The department continued to exist until 1974 when it was split into Constantine Province , Jijel Province , Oum el Bouaghi Province and Skikda Province . Seine-Saint-Denis Seine-Saint-Denis ( French pronunciation: [sɛn sɛ̃ d(ə)ni] ) is a department of France located in the Grand Paris metropolis in the Île-de-France region . In French, it is often referred to colloquially as quatre-vingt treize or neuf trois ("ninety-three" or "nine three"), after its official administrative number, 93. Its prefecture

198-459: The eastern département, also called Constantine , became the prefecture of the eponymous département . The two other Algerian departments were Oran in the west and Alger in the centre. Constantine covered an area of 87,578 km , and comprised six arrondissements : these were Batna , Bône , Bougie , Guelma , Philippeville and Sétif . It was not until the 1950s that the Sahara

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216-486: The same region. Seine-Saint-Denis is located to the northeast of Paris . It has a surface area of only 236 km (91 sq mi), making it one of the smallest departments in France. Seine-Saint-Denis and two other small departments, Hauts-de-Seine and Val-de-Marne , form a ring around Paris , known as the Petite Couronne ("little crown"). Since 1 January 2016, together with Paris , they have formed

234-402: The western and southern portions of the département of Constantine. The much truncated coastal département of Constantine now covered just 19,899 km , and was home to a population of 1,208,355. It was redivided into seven arrondissements : these were Aïn Beïda , Aïn M'lila , Collo , Djidjelli , El-Milia, Mila and, as before, Philippeville . The 1957 departmental reorganisation

252-489: Was annexed into departmentalised Algeria, which explains why the eastern département of Constantine was limited to what is the north-east of Algeria today. On 7 August 1955 the eastern extremity of the département of Constantine was split off and became the separate département of Bône . Less than two years later, in May 1957, population increases triggered the creation of the stand-alone departments of Sétif and of Batna from

270-636: Was created in January 1968, through the implementation of a law passed in July 1964. It was formed from the part of the (hitherto larger) Seine department to the north and north-east of the Paris ring road (and the line of the old city walls), together with a small slice taken from Seine-et-Oise . Seine-Saint-Denis has a history as a left-wing stronghold, belonging to the ceinture rouge (red belt) of Paris . The French Communist Party has maintained

288-507: Was largely coterminous with the Roman province. Under Ottoman rule, Constantinois was attached to the Regency of Algiers and ruled by a bey appointed by the dey of Algiers. The last bey, Ahmed Bey , who ruled from 1826 to 1848, led the local population in a fierce resistance to the French occupation forces after their invasion in 1830. In 1837, the territory was finally conquered by

306-450: Was marked by a change in the "suffix" number appearing on automobile license plates and in other places that used the same code. Until 1957 Constantine was department number "93": after 1957 the much diminished département of Constantine became department number "9D". (In 1968, under a law enacted in 1964, the number "93" would be reallocated to a new département comprising the northern and north-eastern suburbs of Paris .) After independence

324-440: Was the location of 18% of all drug offences in metropolitan France. Seine-Saint-Denis is the French department with the highest proportion of immigrants : 21.7% at the 1999 census (see table below). An immigrant according to INSEE is anyone born non-French within or outside France and as such, this figure does not include people born French but with a migrant background or from overseas France . The ratio of ethnic minorities

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