منطقة الحضنة من خلال رحلتي "بول أودال" و "دي غالون" في أواخر القرن 19 م

Abstract EN

Journeys are one of the important sources in writing the history of modern and contemporary Algeria, that the researcher can benefit from.

But, this knowledge heritage must be criticized and scrutinized, as examples of these journeys, we mention: “Paul Audel's'' journey called “From Algeria to Bousaâda” and the journey of “De Galland”, which is called “A journey to Bousaâda and M'sila”, through which it is possible to know the conditions of the Hodna region, which were in the late nineteenth century AD, where they described to us the Hodna region geographically and its economic, social and cultural conditions in the end of the nineteenth century.

Through the two journeys that provided us with abundant news and information about the region in an accurate description of human life and nature, which were hard conditions, but the travelers did not discuss the causes of these hard conditions, which undoubtedly dated back to colonization and its policy towards the indigenous people.

Key Words: Journeys- the Hodna region- colonization- described