Historical overview
Known in the past under the name Kingdom of Haz, the region of Bouira has faced the Romans came and lived under the rule of" Turkey", whose presence is attested by a number of sites such as the Turkish bordj, currently called Draâ and Bordj "El - Ain El-Turkish", on the route of the National Road Béjaia - Algiers.
The French colonial penetration has been the subject of fierce resistance from the residents under the authority of the Emir Abdelkader, who has visited Bordj including Hamza in 1839, accompanied by his deputy Ahmed Salem Rebissi lbn.
It is this region that has been the scene of a memorable defeat of the Duke of Aumale and it is also that it will spread, from Sour El Ghozlane, Boubaghla uprising (1851-1855) . Its population has been so engaged with El-Mokrani, fell Field of Honour at Souflate in Daïra Ayn Bessem