Yellel

Yellel lies west of the Mina plain, near the lower Chelif valley in western Algeria. The medieval geographer al-Bakri mentioned the town in the eleventh century, and earlier Roman remains were identified there as Ballene Praesidium. Its position placed it on a route between the Chelif basin and the cities farther west. The nearby Mina descends from the Ouarsenis and joins the Chelif near Relizane, giving its name to the plain east of Yellel.