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Béni Abbès ((アラビア語:بني عباس)), also known as the Pearl of the Saoura,〔 (Béchar et la région de La Saoura )〕〔 (Vitaminedz Béni-Abbès, la perle de la Saoura )〕 and also as the White Oasis,〔 (Algérie Pyrénées - de Toulouse à Tamanrasset Sud Algérien, au cœur de l'oasis blanche )〕〔 (Algérie tours Hôtel Rym )〕 is a town and commune located in western Algeria in Béchar Province, far from the provincial capital Béchar, and from Algiers. It has been the capital of the Béni Abbès District since 1957.〔〔 The commune's area is approximately , with a population of 10,885 inhabitants as of the 2008 census, up from 8,850 in 1998,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.statoids.com/ydz.html )〕 and a population growth rate of 2.1%.〔 Béni Abbès lies in the Saoura valley, on the left bank of the intermittent wadi called Oued Saoura. The are seven ksars (castles) in Béni Abbès, including a particularly large one found in a palm grove in the river valley. The people of Béni Abbès are often referred to as ''Abbabsa''. ==Etymology== Béni Abbès is written in Arabic بني عباس, Bani Abbas ("The children of Abbas"). C.Rames explains in his book ''Beni-Abbes (Oran Sahara): Historical, geographical and medical study (1941)'' that the origin of the name comes from the name of the tribe of the city's first occupant : "Forty years after the death of Sidi Othman, in the distant Saguia el-Hamra (Western Sahara), El Mahdi Ben Youssef from the tribe of Beni Abbes".〔 (Béni-Abbés (Sahara oranais): Etude historique, géographique et médicale C. Ramès s.n., 1941 - 77 pages. )〕 The name actually derives from the similar Arabic بني العباس, Bani Al Abbas ("The children of El-abbas"). El Ayachi wrote in his manuscript ''Arrihla al ayachia (1662)'' : "Then we entered the villages of Bani Al Abbas ...".〔(Māʼ al-mawāʼid of ʻAyyāshī, Abū Sālim ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, 1628-1679 ) ISBN 2745170201, 9782745170200〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Béni Abbès」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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