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Definition of Blida
1. Noun. A city in northern Algeria at the foot of the Atlas Mountains to the southwest of Algiers.
Group relationships: Algeria, Algerie, Democratic And Popular Republic Of Algeria
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blida
Literary usage of Blida
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Earth and Its Inhabitants by Élisée Reclus (1893)
"Blida—KOLEA—TIPAZA. ... Blida will soon become the starting-point of a railway,
which penetrates southwards into the ..."
2. A Journal of a Residence in the Esmailla of Abd-el-Kader and of Travels in by Scott (1842)
"... Mascara—Mascara—Wool of Algiers— Cashmere goats—Convoy going to Blida taken
by the Emir— Escape of the Emir from a French Square—Anecdote of De Casse. ..."
3. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1904)
"The best orange-growing district is that around Blida, in the Mitidja Valley at
the base of the Atlas Range. Here has been developed an excellent type of ..."