Bijaya (Bougie)

Bijaya (French Bougie, modern Bejaia), a Mediterranean port in northeastern Algeria, was the capital of the Hammadid dynasty and later a flourishing centre of learning and commerce under the Almohads and Hafsids. The historian Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406) served for a time as chamberlain (hajib) to the Hafsid ruler of Bijaya.