الرحالة و المستكشفون الفرنسيون في توات خلال القرن التاسع عشر و دورهم في احتلال المنطقة

Abstract EN

European interest in the Touat region was not born in the nineteenth century AD, but rather dates back to the early beginnings of European trips to the Great Desert, after those excursions were confined to the Niger River and the Senegal Basin for a period of not long.

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from the Niger Basin and the Senegal Basin by virtue of their control of the coasts of West Africa.

During the nineteenth century, there was increased talk about the Algerian desert And Touat, especially in European writings, and this is linked to exploratory campaigns carried out by Europeans in general and the French in particular in the Sahara, whether they are military or civilian.

France's interest in the Great African Sahara, including the Algerian desert, increased especially after its occupation of Algeria in 1830, so it sent military and civil exploratory missions to southern Algeria for economic and military expansion purposes, Touat has attended many French explorers, such as "René Caille" and "Daumas" and "Baul Soleillet" and " Général Cavaignac ", who took notes on the region, encouraging the French authorities to penetrate and occupy the area.

Those expeditions that appeared on the face of scientific expeditions were nothing but an introduction to a far-reaching strategy whose ultimate goal is colonizing the region, and this is why France established geographical societies that took it upon themselves to supply and supervise those trips, and publish their news in the form of reports that French military leaders benefited from in controlling Touat region and its occupation at the beginning of the twentieth century.