Maqqara

Maqqara lies in the Hodna country between M'sila and Tubna. Medieval geographers described a settlement surrounded by cultivated land, streams and fruit trees; al-Idrisi noted that its people grew abundant flax as well as grain. Ibn Hawqal recorded a stopping place and a watch post on the route to Tubna. In the fourteenth century Ibn Khaldun counted Maqqara among the settlements of the Hodna, alongside M'sila and N'gaous.